QU'APPELLE RIVER VALLEY LAND PLANNING DATA BASE

                  FLYING CREEK PLANNING AREA

                            TERRAIN

1. Coverage Specifications

   Original Map Scale: 1:50,000

   Resolution        : .000061035 of a degree

   Map Projection    : None, i.e. latitude/longitude co-ordinates

   Datum             : NAD27

   Spheroid          : Clarke 1866

   Units of Measure  : decimal degrees

2. Level I Latitude/Longitude Digital Data

   The Qu'Appelle River Valley land planning data in
   latitude/longitude co-ordinates are intended for GIS
   users who may wish to perform their own vertical integration
   of the various layers and themes, or for GIS users who may
   want to integrate these data with GIS data of their own.

   Thematic data layers are intentionally extended past
   the shoreline and as such does not contain the proper
   definition of shoreline. The data are not projected and
   co-ordinates, areas and perimeters are in decimal degrees.

   DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DERIVE AREA STATISTICS FROM THESE DATA
   UNTIL THEY ARE INTEGRATED WITH A PROPER SHORELINE AND THE
   RESULTS PROJECTED TO A SUITABLE MAP PROJECTION.

   If the above restrictions do not meet your GIS objectives,
   obtain the equivalent Level II UTM data where all data
   themes have been vertically integrated, and where the results
   have been projected to UTM.

3. Attribute Schema (Polygon Attribute Table - PAT.DBF)

 a) Standard ArcInfo Polygon Attribute Table (PAT) variables:

    AREA        Num 13,6    Area, in square degrees
    PERIMETER   Num 13,6    Perimeter, in decimal degrees
    COVER_#     Num 11,0    Standard ArcInfo Polygon Number
    COVER_ID    Num 11,0    Standard ArcInfo User ID

 b) Original Digital Data Classification:

    TER1        Char 3      Primary Terrain Code
    TER2        Char 3      Secondary Terrain Code

4. Valid Data Domain - Terrain Code

    AFD       Individual alluvial fan deposits
    ASP       Alkali-salt patches
    BDL       Bird's-foot delta
    CAF       Coalescing alluvial fans and colluvium-matled lower
              valley-side till slopes
    CFP       Cover flood plain
    CSS       Cuspate sand spits
    EVS       Eroded valley sides
    HT        High terraces
    MFP       Meander flood plains
    OVS       Old Valleyside slump bloacks
    PLA       Ponded lacustrine areas
    RVS       Recent valleyside slump blocks
    SVS       Smooth valleyside slopes
    SPS       Springs and seepages
    USV       Upper side of most-apparent slump blocks on valley
              walls
    DUN       Dunes
    SUD       Sudes
    LAK       Lake
    SPC       Spillaway channel
    GRP       Gravel pit
    PTU       Potentially unstable
    MEC       Meltewater channel
    ERC       Eroded channel
    OLS       Old slide
    WEA       Wet area
    BER       Beach ridge
    ECB       Eroded till
              course gravel-bondlers
    999       Unclassified

5. Narrative Description of Qu'Appelle Terrain Theme

   This theme classifies the terrain into one or two of the
   terrain classes listed above. The terrain classification
   reflects land cover/land use conditions at the time of the
   inventory and may not be current.

6. Accreditation

     The Canada Geographic Information System data extraction
     and distribution is managed by:

     The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
     Natural Resources Canada
     Government of Canada
     Room 650 - 615 Booth Street
     Ottawa, ON, Canada
     K1A 0E9

     Based on significant research and development by:

     The National Archives of Canada
     Statistics Canada
     Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

     Data processing completed by:

     Spatialanalysis
     Ottawa, Ontario,
     Canada K1Y ON3

     The National Archives of Canada retains
     intellectual property.

     (Copyright) Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 1999.