Table 3.92
Land cover and land use, Vancouver census metropolitan area (CMA) and census metropolitan area-ecosystem (CMA-E), 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011

Table 3.92
Land cover and land use, Vancouver census metropolitan area (CMA) and census metropolitan area-ecosystem (CMA-E), 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the different types of land cover and land use Vancouver. The row headers provide information on the total land area, total built-up which is further split into settled and roads, arable and natural and semi natural lands, in 1971, 1991, 2001, and 2011. In 2011, the natural category is further split into forest, water and other. The row headers also provide information on the land cover and land use change from 1971 to 2011 for total built-up, arable, and natural and semi natural. The column headers provide information on area, in square kilometres, and percentage change for the CMA, and CMA-ecosystem. The column headers also provide information on CMA as a proportion of CMA-ecosystem as a percentage.
  CMANote 1 CMA-ecosystemNote 2, Note 3 CMA as a proportion of CMA-ecosystem
square kilometres percent
Total land area 2,883 6,041 48
1971  
Total built-upNote 4 492 506 97
Settled 339 348 98
Roads 153 159 96
ArableNote 5 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 387 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Natural and semi-naturalNote 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 5,148 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
1991  
Total built-upNote 7 801 864 93
Settled 552 594 93
Roads 248 271 92
ArableNote 5 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 341 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Natural and semi-naturalNote 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 4,836 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
2001  
Total built-upNote 7 960 1,042 92
Settled 710 770 92
Roads 250 272 92
ArableNote 5 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 328 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Natural and semi-naturalNote 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 4,672 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
2011  
Total built-upNote 7 995 1,085 92
Settled 743 810 92
Roads 252 275 92
ArableNote 5 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 348 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Natural and semi-naturalNote 8 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 4,609 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Forest Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 3,748 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Water Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 330 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Other Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 531 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
  percent
Land cover and land use change, 1971 to 2011  
Total built-up areaNote 4, Note 7 102 114 Note ...: not applicable
ArableNote 5 Note ...: not applicable -10 Note ...: not applicable
Natural and semi-naturalNote 6 Note ...: not applicable -10 Note ...: not applicable
.. not available for a specific reference period
... not applicable
Note 1.

2011 census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries are used for all years. Total area excludes water.

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Note 2.

The CMA-Ecosystem (CMA-E) combines any Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) polygon that is contained within or that intersects with the CMA boundary, as well as SLC polygons that are fully contained within this newly formed boundary of the CMA-E. Includes all terrestrial and water surfaces.

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Note 3.

CMA-E are not spatially mutually exclusive—they overlap where a Soil Landscape of Canada (SLC) polygon crosses more than one CMA boundary, as is the case in Vancouver and Abbotsford–Mission. Caution should be used when comparing data. See CMA-E maps in Section 3: Ecosystem accounts and statistics by census metropolitan area for a visual representation of the CMA-E boundaries.

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Note 4.

Built-up area for 1971 is based on Canada Land Inventory Land Use (CLI: LU) and Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP), code B – Urban Built-up. CLI: LU and CLUMP built-up areas that were not built-up in the AAFC Land Use, 1990 dataset were removed from the 1971 built-up data and reclassified according to their 1990 cover. To improve comparability with the other years, roads included in the core built-up area were identified and removed to produce the 1971 settled area. The 1971 dataset did not include roads outside the core built-up area. Roads were modeled by applying the ratio of roads to settled area from 1990 to the 1971 settled area.

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Note 5.

Arable land area is composed of the cropland, tame or seeded pasture and summerfallow land from the Interpolated Census of Agriculture.

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Note 6.

Natural and semi-natural land is the residual area remaining after subtracting built-up and arable land from the total area. Because it was calculated residually, the class also includes some homes and other buildings, particularly those located on large lots and in rural areas, since these may not be captured by satellite imagery as built-up, due in part to the resolution of the data and overlying tree canopy.

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Note 7.

Built-up area estimates for 1991, 2001 and 2011 are based on Land Use, 1990, 2000 and 2010, codes 21 (Settlement–Built-up and urban) and 25 (Roads–primary, secondary and tertiary).

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Note 8.

For 2011, forest and water are broken out separately based on data from AAFC Crop Inventory, 2011 and CanVec+ respectively. Other natural and semi-natural land is a residual class calculated by subtracting all other classes from the total area. The change over time for these categories requires further validation.

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Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2016, special tabulation of data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), 1999, Canada Land Inventory: CLI Land Use (circa 1966), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/cli_250k/landuse/ (accessed September 15, 2015); NRCan, CCRS, 1999, Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP): CLUMP Land Use (1971), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/clump/clump_1971/ (accessed September 15, 2015); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18e3ef1a-497c-40c6-8326-aac1a34a0dec (accessed September 16, 2015); AAFC and Statistics Canada, special tabulation, Census of Agriculture, Census Geographic Component Base 2011 and 2001 and Census of Agriculture, Regular Base 1991 and 1971; AAFC, 2013, AAFC Crop Inventory, 2011, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/58ca7629-4f6d-465a-88eb-ad7fd3a847e3 (accessed August 10, 2015); NRCan, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, 2014, CanVec+, ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec+/shp/ (accessed August 10, 2015).


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