The Human Footprint Inventory Enhanced (HFIe) for the Oil Sands Monitoring Region (OSM) 2018

The Technical Committee is directly involved in the assembling of the enhanced sub-layers (i.e., Roads, Railways, and Well Sites) and includes members from the GoA and the ABMI. [...] Few of the sublayers used in the public version of the Human Footprint Inventory, e.g., the enhanced sub-layers for Roads, Railways, Well Sites, and Pipelines sub-layers were obtained from the Government of Alberta through the AHFMP. [...] The disturbances are in various states of recovery (natural and human-influenced) and the interpretation of whether a disturbance is still considered a footprint is left to the discretion of the user and their specific requirements. [...] The extent of the original disturbance is estimated based on P a g e | 6 HFIeOSM2018; Metadata; Version 1.0; GC ABMI disposition boundaries or buffering to allow for the potential disturbance resulting from the equipment used in the construction of the well pad. [...] The center line represents the linear distance of the corridor and a single center line is placed in the corridor regardless of the number of pipelines in that corridor.