Vegetation Data
There are various sources of vegetation data across Canada. Some of the most useful sources for the ZULE Lab are listed below:
| Dataset | Organization | Description | Date | File Format | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Montreal | Data on municipally owned trees, designated as “public domain”: street and off-street trees (parks and public squares). | Ongoing | CSV, PDF | https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/arbres |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Calgary | Information about Calgary’s urban forest, including the locations and types of trees on public land. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP | https://data.calgary.ca/Environment/Public-Trees/tfs4-3wwa |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Halifax | Point representation of tree assets located primarily in the right of way for the Halifax Regional Municipality | Ongoing | CSV, SHP, KML | https://catalogue-hrm.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/33a4e9b6c7e9439abcd2b20ac50c5a4d_0/about |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Toronto | City-owned trees located on road allowances across Toronto. The intent of the database is to provide an inventory of City owned-trees on the road allowance for inspection and maintenance. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP, GeoJSON, GPKG | https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/street-tree-data/ |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Ottawa | Dynamic map showing over 150,000 trees around the City of Ottawa. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP, GeoJSON, KML | https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/tree-inventory/explore |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Vancouver | The street tree dataset includes a listing of public trees on boulevards in the City of Vancouver and provides data on tree coordinates, species and other related characteristics. Park trees and private trees are not included in the inventory. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP, GeoJSON, KML | https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/street-trees/information/?disjunctive.species_name&disjunctive.common_name& |
| Public Tree Inventory | City of Winnipeg | Detailed list and map of all public trees located in the City of Winnipeg, including botanical name, common name and precise location. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP, KML | https://data.winnipeg.ca/Parks/Tree-Inventory/hfwk-jp4h |
| Treated Ash Trees | City of Montreal | Data set showing public ash trees protected from EAB by TreeAzin injection treatment since 2014 by the City of Montreal. | Ongoing | CSV, SHP | https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/frenes-publics-proteges-injection-agrile-du-frene |
| Modèle numérique de canopée (MNC) | City of Montreal | The digital canopy model (DCM) is a representation of the canopy elevation. This 3D representation of tree vegetation corresponds to the 2015 2D canopy. |
2015 | GeoTIFF | https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/modele-numerique-de-canopee-mnc |
| Forest Cover | CommunautéMétropolitaine de Montréal | All wooded areas of half a hectare or more form the forest cover. | 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2011 | zip | https://observatoire.cmm.qc.ca/produits/donnees-georeferencees/#couvert_forestier |
| Canopy Index | Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal | The canopy index illustrates the low vegetation cover, the high vegetation cover of more than 3 meters (the canopy), the low mineral surfaces and the high mineral surfaces of more than 3 meters. | 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2011 | zip | https://observatoire.cmm.qc.ca/produits/donnees-georeferencees/#indice_canopee |
| Global Green Canopy | Treepedia | To visualize the green canopy of different cities. | ongoing | html | http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia-shared/ |