GEOS Final Results Composite, BC; Forest Intactness, Human Impacts, Carbon, and Ecological Attributes

This composite dataset represents the final analysis results of forest intactness, human impacts, carbon pools, and ecological attributes of the Interior Wetbelt and Inland Temperate Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada.

Primary attributes included in this composite:

We projected all data to the NAD 1983 BC Environment Albers projected coordinate system and clipped layers to the GEOS Interior Wetbelt study area. All attributes for analysis were summarized to subwatershed reporting units within the study area. In summarizing attributes to reporting units, we either calculated percent cover or other statistics of interest to the user. Input datasets used for analysis can be found in the individual layer metadata.

To summarize and calculate attributes of interest, we intersected subwatershed boundaries from the BC Freshwater Atlas with each input dataset found in the layer metadata. This intersection was used to generate percent cover calculations and statistics of interest for the user. For percent cover, the intersection provided the percent of the subwatershed that was covered by the input dataset. For sum and mean statistics, the intersection aggregated the input data values within each subwatershed and either summed or took the mean of those values. Sensitive fish habitat was simply a presence indication per subwatershed.