Leander Campbell

AAFC Annual Crop Inventory pixel level confidence raster for Newfoundland, shown in greyscale

A more detailed look at individual pixel confidence levels

3. Pixel Confidence
New for 2025 we are including a separate raster that will give a pixel-by-pixel confidence level from 0(low/black) to 100(high/white) for each map.

This will be in addition to our regular accuracy assessments.
Below is what the 2025 confidence raster for NL will look like.

Here is 2024 (left) vs 2025 (right) of Newfoundland for comparison

2. Landcover Classification

Our previous training data was stagnant & over time was losing accuracy

We created a more robust (& ideally accurate) method for this.

Our training data will be based off of a few national landcover maps that we will update annually so we capture landscape changes

An overview of BC showing where the AAFC Annual Crop Inventory is expanding to.

1. Larger Extents

The most obvious change will be that, like agriculture itself, we are expanding.
Here’s a look at last year’s BC map with the red line showing what we’ve added for 2025. All provinces from Quebec westward expanded to some degree.

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to improve the 2025 Crop Inventory map for you, which is partially why we are running late on the distribution of it this year.

Here’s a sneak peak at what changes/improvements to expect.
#cropmap25 #CdnAg

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Done!

An always interesting channel to watch, but this episode from @techconnectify.bsky.social is in-depth, thought provoking and impassioned.
Worth a view.

Cold days in Ottawa + an old historic building = pretty views of the research farm from my office window. 🌬️❄️🪟

Not often the precip from these Lake Effect snowstorms is not snowflakes. #Goderich #LakeHuron #graupel #onstorm

In the 90s Jean Chrétien era, the local MP was a Mennonite who ran as a Liberal.

Lib voters voted for him b/c of the party & PC voters did the same b/c he was often more conservative than them.

He kept getting reelected due to this foot in two worlds strategy.

Carney reminds me of this situation.

🚨We updated the catalog of Crop Inventory maps open.canada.ca/data/en/data...
1. Refined Extents - All maps now compatible
2. Colour Table - RGB values are consistent over time
3. COG files - All files are now Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs

There are NO CHANGES to the map values themselves.

@ianmendes.bsky.social Tried to watch the start of the 2nd while picking up my kid.

- Rogers Xfinity Stream App
- using Data
- Location West Hunt Club area

Fail 👎🫣

South of Dresden spotted this sunflower field. Why is nobody here taking selfies?!? #cropmap25 #ontag

Truckloads of tomatoes awaiting for me to turn them in to salsa 😁. Near Chatham #cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

An old veteran just waiting to be called back in to action 🥰 #MasseyFerguson #MF550

Spotted a nice little field of buckwheat (don’t see that much anymore) & a field of winter canola (increasingly seeing that) near Ridgetown.
#cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

Tomato harvest partially completed near Muirkirk. #cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

Just down the road, eye spy winter canola. #cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

What was winter wheat in June is now clover in the fall. Near a foggy Bryanston #cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

A large field with a large mixture plants.

Looks like you can get another cut of this sudangrass.

Soybeans and sunflowers? Together at last! 🫠

Another mixture this time involving peas.

Besides your standard crops we are also trying to note some other coverages. #cropmap25 #ontag

Tearing down the protective shade cloth over a field of ginseng.

Tobacco drying in the field

Tobacco leaves yellowing in the fall skies, await harvesting.

Sunflowers heavy with seeds

Driving around in the fall we are getting to see things we normally don’t.

Back in southern Ontario for a 3-day trip to gather examples of double cropping.

After our trips here in June/July we are revisiting fields that had winter crop varieties & seeing what is there now.

Today we were driving in the Woodstock/Brantford/ Kitchener area. #cropmap25 #ontag #cdnag

A map of Canada with dots in certain provinces (BC, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland), plus the Yukon Territory. These represent observations on agricultural crop types collected by AAFC workers this summer. In northwestern Ontario, there is some colourful lines that show the route the AAFC team will be traveling this week (each colour represents a day of travel). A large orange arrow points to this area to bring attention to it. There are red polygons over Quebec and the Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba). AAFC personnel typically do not collect data in these areas as we have crop information provided to use by provincial crop insurance agencies.

For the last 2 months, AAFC teams have been collecting observations in Canada to use in #cropmap25.

This week we finish with a trip to northwest Ontario. Our team will visit Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Dryden & all points in between, recording what's growing in this part of #ontag.

Turning the last bit of topsoil. Near Eatonville. #ontag

Look who, like me, decided to take a break from the farm fields and spend the day at the beach…
#SpottedCucumberBeetle

Oh my! 🤪

Ya, that Ironman competition looked like a traffic nightmare.