Urban Primary Land Vegetation Inventory - 2025

About this dataset

The urban Primary Land and Vegetation Inventory (PLVI) is an air photo-based, spatially referenced digital inventory developed to identify the type, extent and conditions of vegetation in urban areas of the Province of Alberta. The coverage of the 2025 uPLVI dataset encompasses the City of Edmonton municipal boundary. The uPLVI follows the framework of, and can be integrated with, the Province of Alberta’s Primary Land and Vegetation Inventory (PLVI). In order to capture the unique variation found in large urban settings the Provincial PLVI landcover types were modified. To provide more land-cover information within urban settings twenty Site Types were added to the Provincial PLVI classification. In addition, Seven PLVI Site Types were deemed inapplicable for urban settings. Ecological conditions in the uPLVI are interpreted specific to the availability of moisture and nutrients to plants (i.e. Moisture Regime & Nutrient Regime), using site factors and vegetation species as indicators. A polygon may be a-spatially attributed with up to 3 ecological conditions, depending on complexity and extent. See the uPLVI Interpreters Manual for additional information https://data.edmonton.ca/dataset/uPLVI-Interpretation-Manual-2025/cxv6-rubr/about_data