SCANFI v2: the Spatialized Canadian National Forest Inventory data product

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Authors: Natural Resources Canada
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Abstract

This data publication contains a set of 30m resolution raster files representing Canadian wall-to-wall maps, at 5-year intervals from 1985 to 2025, of broad landcover type, forest canopy height, degree of crown closure and aboveground tree biomass, along with species composition of several major tree species. The Spatialized CAnadian National Forest Inventory data product (SCANFI) was developed using the newly updated National Forest Inventory photo-plot dataset, which consists of a regular sample grid of photo-interpreted high-resolution imagery covering all of Canada’s non-arctic landmass. SCANFI was produced using temporally harmonized summer and winter Landsat spectral imagery along with hundreds of tile-level regional models based on a novel k-nearest neighbours (k-NN) and random forest imputation method.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Remote-Sensing Image Classification Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Publication details

Journal / source
GEOSCAN
Publication date
12 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset