@article {51996,
	title = {Detailed linear characterization of selected townships located south of Fort McMurray, Alberta},
	year = {2012},
	note = {CEMA Contract No. 2011-0031 LWG. },
	month = {06/2012},
	pages = {30 pages },
	institution = {Cumulative Environmental Management Association },
	address = {Fort McMurray, AB},
	abstract = {This document contains the results from a lineal characterization project conducted in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta.

The lineal characterization is based on remotely sensed data; specifically, conventional 1:30,000 Black \& White aerial photography digitized and viewed in 3-dimension using specialized computer software. All anthropogenic disturbances that occurred within the project area, up to the summers of 2008 and 2009 , were digitized and interpreted based on what was seen in the aerial photography. A number of attributes were collected for each anthropogenic disturbance, which ranged from disturbance-type (e.g. seismic line or pipeline) to vegetation and ecological information such as tree-species, vegetation height and ecosite, for example. A total of 12,313 kilometers (km) of anthropogenic features were surveyed. Over half of this total, 52\% (6,415 km), was low-impact 3D-seismic lines. The second most common was the higher impact, 2D-seismic lines at 30\% (3,628 km). The remaining 18\% represented other anthropogenic disturbances with the two most common of these being Cut-trails (8\% - 924km) and Pipelines (4\% -544 km).},
	keywords = {assessment, CEMA, effects, GIS, impact, in-situ, mapping, pipeline, planning, remote sensing, roads},
	url = {http://library.cemaonline.ca/ckan/dataset/796b3c12-01aa-47e5-aa05-a50c2c4a5cdd/resource/151fe690-9a43-4096-a4e2-411230962910/download/detailedlinearcharacterizationofselected.pdf},
	author = {Nash, John C.}
}
