ABMI Alberta Wetland Inventory Data

The ABMI province-wide wetland inventory maps wetland classes according to the Alberta Wetland Classification System - fen, bog, swamp, marsh - across Alberta. The open water class includes both shallow and deep open water features. The product was generated using a combination of satellite and terrain data, and machine learning. The province was mapped separately in three project areas representing ecoregions of Alberta with distinct wetlands. These three regions are: (i) the forested region, which is characterized by large peatland complexes; (ii) the prairie region with wetlands usually occurring in small depressional potholes, and (iii) the mountain region where wetlands are constrained to narrow valleys. For more detail, please see the available technical documentation.

Relevant Publications

Creating a Detailed Wetland Inventory with Sentinel-2 Time-Series Data and Google Earth Engine in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada (Peer-reviewed publication, 2022)
 

Large-scale probabilistic identification of boreal peatlands using Google Earth Engine, open-access satellite data, and machine learning (Peer-reviewed publication, 2019)
 

Google Earth Engine, Open-Access Satellite Data, and Machine Learning in Support of Large-Area Probabilistic Wetland Mapping (Peer-reviewed publication, 2017)
 

Webmap: You can view the product before downloading HERE.