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Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System (SOLRIS)

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Provider

Science and Information Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR)

Description

The Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System (SOLRIS) is a landscape-level inventory of natural, rural and urban areas. SOLRIS follows a standardized approach for ecosystem description, inventory and interpretation known as Ecological land Classification (ELC) for southern Ontario.

  • Many of these data products are available for download from the Data Resource Centre Geospatial Metadata Explorer.

    Note: to download geospatial data from off-campus users need to first install CISCO IPSec VPN Access software available (a free download) from the University of Guelph CCS software distribution Web site.

  • For data products not yet published to the Geospatial Metadata Explorer contact the Data Resource Centre at

SOLRIS Extent

The extent of the SOLRIS data covers all of Ecoregions 6E and 7E.

SOLRIS Planning Areas

  • Shapefiles for SOLRIS Planning Areas (.zip – 11.3mb)

SOLRIS Geospatial Data Files

  • SOLRIS Version 1 * [released 2006]
  • SOLRIS Version 1.1 (Greater Toronto Area Version) * [released November, 2006]
  • SOLRIS Version 1.2 (Final Version) * [released April, 2008]

* Documentation is included the zipped file for each Version.

Related Geospatial Data

Built-Up Area – Southern Ontario

Description

Contains spatial data in the form of an ESRI shapefile depicting the extent of built-up areas in the Southern Region as defined and mapped as part of SOLRIS Phase One.

Projection

Geographic: GCS NAD1983 (NAD83 UTM Zone17N)

Spheroid: – GRS 1980.

  • Built-up Areas (.zip – 28.6mb)

Documentation

  • Built Up Areas Read Me (.txt – 5kb)

Wooded Area – 2006 Release

Description

The file contains spatial data depicting the extent of woodlands in the Southern Region as defined and mapped as part of SOLRIS Phase One. The Wooded Area — 2006 Release — uses OBM woodlands data as a base dataset. The base dataset was updated as part of the SOLRIS project using ortho and IRS imagery as well as Color Infrared air photos.

Format

Shapefile

Projection

Transverse Mercator, NAD_1983 UTM Zone 17N.

  • Wooded Areas (.zip – 176mb)

Documentation

  • Wooded Area 2006 Readme (.txt – 5kb)
  • Woodland Data Capture Criteria (.doc – 664kb)

Ecological Land Classification – ELC

A layer showing the ecozones, ecoregions and ecodistrictions of Ontario.

Format

Shapefile

Projection

Geographic Coordinate system (GCS_ North America_1983)

Datum

NAD 1983

  • ELC (.zip – 31.9mb)

Documentation

  • ELC Readme (.txt – 5kb)
  • ELC Map (PDF – 1.56mb)

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Contact

519–824–4120 ext. 56417

Visit

The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.

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Last updated May 27th, 2011 by R.E.C. (details)