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).