SMALL_LAND
Area of small islands (ha)

Definition

This is the total area, in kilohectares, of small islands in the the entire SLC polygon. These islands are too small to depict at the 1:1,000,000 scale of the HYDRO coverage, and are classified as water in that coverage.

Units

Hectares (ha)

Notes

1. When the version 2.2 SLC and HYDRO coverages were intersected to create the LAT, some SLC polygons appeared to have vanishingly small land areas. Values for SMALL_LAND were manually assigned for these polygons so that LAND_AREA calculations produce reasonable numbers.
2. In this version, SMALL_LAND refers only to islands surrounded by fresh water.
3. Small islands surrounded by ocean are not included in this item, or anywhere else in the LAT. Furthermore, small islands were not identified in lakes which form part of an SLC polygon with more than 500 ha of land mass, as determined by an overlay of the SLC and HYDRO coverages. These deficiencies may be rectified in a future version.

Source

PERCENT for KINDMAT not "WA" from the Component Table for those polygons where POLYGON_AREA = HYDRO_OCEAN + HYDRO_FRESH

effective version 2.2 Source: Peter Schut
Contact: Head, CanSIS