The Human Footprint Inventory Enhanced (HFIe) for the Oil Sands Monitoring Region (OSM) 2019

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 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.