AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Maximum Wind Speed

The maximum wind speed during the forecast period km/hr (mdws).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted index is available daily from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted index is available weekly (Thursday) from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Winds can significantly influence crop growth and yield mainly due to mechanical damage of plant vegetative and reproductive organs, an imbalance of plant-soil-atmosphere water relationships, and pest and disease distributions in agricultural fields. The maximum wind speed and the number of strong wind days over the forecast period represent short term and extended strong wind events respectively.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of daily precipitation above 25mm

Probability of daily precipitation above 25mm over the forecast period (p1d25_prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Units: mm  
  
  Precipitation (moisture availability) establishes the economic yield potential and product quality of field crops. Both dry and wet precipitation extremes have the ability to inhibit proper crop growth. The greatest daily precipitation index covers the risk of excessive precipitation in the short term, while the other indices pertain to longer term moisture availability.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of frost for cool season/overwintering crops (<-2°C)

The Probability (likelihood) of frost occurring. The number of days in the forecast period with a minimum temperature below the frost temperature, the temperature at which frost damage occurs. This temperature is -2°C for cool season crops (ffd_cool_prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Cool season crops require a relatively low temperature condition. Typical examples include wheat, barley, canola, oat, rye, pea, and potato. They normally grow in late spring and summer, and mature between the end of summer and early fall in the southern agricultural areas of Canada. The optimum temperature for such crops is 25°C.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of 10-day precipitation above 150mm

Probability of 10-day precipitation total above 150mm (p10d_prob150).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Precipitation (moisture availability) establishes the economic yield potential and product quality of field crops. Both dry and wet precipitation extremes have the ability to inhibit proper crop growth. The greatest daily precipitation index covers the risk of excessive precipitation in the short term, while the other indices pertain to longer term moisture availability.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve – 30 Centimeter Contours

Thirty-centimeter contours generated from bare earth LiDAR points.  
  
  LiDAR Services International (LSI), a Calgary-based LiDAR company completed an airborne LiDAR survey for the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) and Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (AAFC) in October 2011. The project involved collection of LiDAR data for a 362.97 km2 block area, 252.77 km2 for Redberry Lake and 110.20 km2 for AAFC northwest of Saskatoon, SK.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Canada Landcover - Derived from AVHRR

This land cover data set was derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor operating on board the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. Information on the NOAA series of satellites can be found at www.noaa.gov/satellites.html The vegetation and land cover information set has been classified into twelve categories. Information on the classification of the vegetation and land cover, raster to vector conversion, generalization for cartographic presentations is included in the paper "The Canada Vegetation and Land Cover: A Raster and Vector Data Set for GIS Applications - Uses in Agriculture" (https://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/download/landcover/scale/gis95ppr.pdf). A soil quality evaluation was obtained by cross-referencing the AVHRR information with Census of Agriculture records and biophysical (Soil Landscapes of Canada) data and is also included in the above paper. AVHRR Land Cover Data approximates a 1:2M scale and was done originally for Agriculture Canada. The projection used is Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) 49/77 with origin at 49N 95W.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2016

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2016 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2017

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2017 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Crop Rotations in Canada

Crop rotation is an agricultural production and land management practice beneficial to sustainable agriculture in Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) produces crop rotation data annually showing the crop rotations used within the agricultural extent of Canada for the last four complete growing seasons (based on available data). This data can be used by producers, land managers, and policy makers to assess current rotations to assist in future land management decisions.Crop rotation data is derirved from AAFC's publicly-available annual crop inventory data.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2013

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2013 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve – 1 meter Full Feature DEM

One meter digital elevation model generated from LiDAR point files.  
  
  LiDAR Services International (LSI), a Calgary-based LiDAR company completed an airborne LiDAR survey for the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) and Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (AAFC) in October 2011. The project involved collection of LiDAR data for a 362.97 km2 block area, 252.77 km2 for Redberry Lake and 110.20 km2 for AAFC northwest of Saskatoon, SK.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve – 1 meter Full Feature Hillshade

One meter hillshade generated from full feature DEM.  
  
  LiDAR Services International (LSI), a Calgary-based LiDAR company completed an airborne LiDAR survey for the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) and Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (AAFC) in October 2011. The project involved collection of LiDAR data for a 362.97 km2 block area, 252.77 km2 for Redberry Lake and 110.20 km2 for AAFC northwest of Saskatoon, SK.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Probability of 10-day precipitation above 10mm

Probability of 10-day precipitation total above 10mm (p10d_prob10).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from September 1 to August 31.  
  
  Precipitation (moisture availability) establishes the economic yield potential and product quality of field crops. Both dry and wet precipitation extremes have the ability to inhibit proper crop growth. The greatest daily precipitation index covers the risk of excessive precipitation in the short term, while the other indices pertain to longer term moisture availability.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Swift Current LiDAR Project 2009 - LASer (LAS) Files

McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd (MCSL) has performed a LiDAR and Imagery survey in southern Saskatchewan. The purpose was to generate DEMs for hydraulic modeling of floodplain, digital terrain maps, and other products for portions of the Swift Current Creek valley and other miscellaneous tributaries and related water course valleys in and around the City of Swift Current.  
  
  The acquisition was completed between the 16th and 25th of October, 2009. The survey consisted of approximately 790 square kilometers of coverage. While collecting the LiDAR data, we also acquired aerial photo in RGB and NIR modes consisting of 1649 frames each.  
  
  In addition to the main area of interest, McElhanney has acquired some LiDAR and photo of low lying areas adjacent to the project area. This additional area was acquired on speculation that the data may be required in the future.  
  
  The 3Dimensional laser returns (point cloud) were classified using Microstation (v8), Terrascan and TerraModeler. A series of algorithms based on topography were created to separate laser returns that hit the ground from the ones that hit objects above the ground.  
  
  Steps taken are:  
  
  Classified LiDAR surface as Bare earth, Classified other features as non-bare earth or default, Formatted to ASPRS .LAS V1.1 (Class 1 - Default (non-bare earth), Class 2 – Ground points (bare earth)), 239 tiles each 2km x2km generated for LiDAR data, File prefix FF – Classified (Non-Bare Earth and Bare Earth), File Prefix BE – Bare Earth only, Bare Earth Model Key Point (MKPts) surface files are thinned Bare earth LiDAR points. MKPts files generate a virtually identical surface without the large file size, MKPts file format is ASCII (Easting Northing Z-elevation) xyz and LAS format.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Canadian Agricultural Extents derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)

This dataset is no longer maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and should be considered as an archived product. For current estimates of the agricultural extent in Canada please refer to the Agricultural Ecumeme produced by Statistics Canada.  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/92-639-X  
  
  The Agriculture Extent of Canada derived from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) was obtained from the GeoGratis web site (www.geogratis.ca). All polygons with an area less than 50 Km sq were eliminated by GeoGratis before we received the data. This product allows the user to see the significant areas of cropland and rangeland across Canada.  
  
  The Agriculture Extent of Canada derived from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) was obtained from the GeoGratis web site (www.geogratis.ca). All polygons with an area less than 50 Km sq were eliminated by GeoGratis before we received the data. This product allows the user to see the significant areas of cropland and rangeland across Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2014

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2014 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve LiDAR Survey

LiDAR Services International (LSI), a Calgary-based LiDAR company completed an airborne LiDAR survey for the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) and Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (AAFC) in October 2011. The project involved collection of LiDAR data for a 362.97 km2 block area, 252.77 km2 for Redberry Lake and 110.20 km2 for AAFC northwest of Saskatoon, SK.   
  
  Deliverables included:  
  
  •	1 m bare earth and full feature grids in 1 km x 1   km tiles (ASCII XYZ format)   
  
  •	1 m bare earth and full feature greyscale hillshades (GeoGeoTIF format)   
  
  •	Classified LiDAR point clouds and ASCII extractor program (LAS v1.2 format)

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Swift Current LiDAR Project 2009

McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd (MCSL) has performed a LiDAR and Imagery survey in southern Saskatchewan. The purpose was to generate DEMs for hydraulic modeling of floodplain, digital terrain maps, and other products for portions of the Swift Current Creek valley and other miscellaneous tributaries and related water course valleys in and around the City of Swift Current.  
  
  The acquisition was completed between the 16th and 25th of October, 2009. The survey consisted of approximately 790 square kilometers of coverage. While collecting the LiDAR data, we also acquired aerial photo in RGB and NIR modes consisting of 1649 frames each.  
  
  In addition to the main area of interest, McElhanney has acquired some LiDAR and photo of low lying areas adjacent to the project area. This additional area was acquired on speculation that the data may be required in the future.  
  
  The 3Dimensional laser returns (point cloud) were classified using Microstation (v8), Terrascan and TerraModeler. A series of algorithms based on topography were created to separate laser returns that hit the ground from the ones that hit objects above the ground.  
  
  Steps taken are:  
  
  Classified LiDAR surface as Bare earth, Classified other features as non-bare earth or default, Formatted to ASPRS .LAS V1.1 (Class 1 - Default (non-bare earth), Class 2 – Ground points (bare earth)), 239 tiles each 2km x2km generated for LiDAR data, File prefix FF – Classified (Non-Bare Earth and Bare Earth), File Prefix BE – Bare Earth only, Bare Earth Model Key Point (MKPts) surface files are thinned Bare earth LiDAR points. MKPts files generate a virtually identical surface without the large file size, MKPts file format is ASCII (Easting Northing Z-elevation) xyz and LAS format.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Heat wave days for warm season crops (>35°C)

Heat Wave Days are the number of days in the forecast period with a maximum temperature above the cardinal maximum temperature, the temperature at which crop growth ceases. This temperature is 35°C for warm season crops (dhw_warm).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted index is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted index is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Warm season crops require a relatively warm temperature condition. Typical examples include bean, soybean, corn and sweet potato. They normally grow during the summer season and early fall, then ripen in late fall in southern Canada only. Other agricultural regions in Canada do not always experience sufficiently long growing seasons for these plants to achieve maturity. The optimum temperature for such crops is 30°C.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Business or organization plans to expand, restructure, acquire, invest, transfer, sell or close over the next 12 months, first quarter of 2023

Business or organization plans to expand, restructure, acquire, invest, transfer, sell or close over the next 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, first quarter of 2023.                    <br>

Organization: Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Art Bank Collection

This dataset contains the art works in the Canada Council Art Bank collection. For 50 years, the Art Bank has been collecting work by the best Canadian artists of our times. It has become the world's largest collection of contemporary Canadian art with over 17,000 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures by some 3,000 artists. More than one-third of the collection is on view in public spaces and private organizations across Canada, through art rentals, loans, and outreach programs. The Art Bank is part of the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada's national arts funder.

The Art Bank's collection data is available to researchers, students, media or anyone interested in Canadian contemporary art. Download the open data in Excel (includes methodology) or CSV format.


Organization: Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Drug shortages in Canada: Regulations and guidance

The Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) contain provisions that help to safeguard the Canadian drug supply. The regulatory provisions are one part of Canada's overall multi-stakeholder toolkit to help prevent and mitigate drug shortages. Compliance and enforcement actions related to these provisions are undertaken as per Health Canada's Compliance and enforcement policy for health products (POL-0001).

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada
Canada and EU recognize good manufacturing practices extra-jurisdictional inspection outcomes before April 1, 2021

Canada and the European Union (EU) officially recognized good manufacturing practices (GMP) inspections conducted outside of their respective jurisdictions as of April 1, 2021. The extra-jurisdictional inspections are outlined in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)’s protocol on pharmaceuticals. This protocol is known as the Protocol on the Mutual Recognition of the Compliance and Enforcement Programme regarding Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Products.

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada
Appearance before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (PACP) – Report 2, Greening Government Strategy, of the 2022 Reports 1 To 5 of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development– 28 October 2022

Binder used by the Deputy Minister to support his appearance before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to discuss National Defence efforts to reduce emissions under the Greening Government Strategy.

Organization: National Defence | Défense nationale
Policy on collection and retention of records related to health product compliance and enforcement (POL-0140)

The purpose of this policy is to inform stakeholders of the legislative provisions related to records accessed and obtained by inspectors during compliance and enforcement (C&E) activities, as provided for in the Food and Drugs Act (the Act), as well as the Government of Canada's policies in respect of the collection, electronic transfer, retention and disposal of records.

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada
Changes for reporting mandatory medical device shortages and discontinuations take effect on March 2, 2022

The amended Medical Devices Regulations (Regulations), previously published in Canada Gazette, Part II, will come into force on March 2, 2022. The previous provisions in Interim Order No. 2 respecting drugs, medical devices and foods for a special dietary purpose in relation to COVID-19 expires on March 1, 2022.

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada