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Tour Canada from space
Map of Canada Kluane National Park, Yukon Lake Laberge, Yukon Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories Norman Wells, Northwest Territories Bathurst Island, Nunavut Resolute, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut Images Near Calgary, Alberta Port Renfrew, British Colombia Liard River Valley, Yukon Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Fires of Northwest Territories Downtown Vancouver, British Colombia Southern Vancouver Island, British Colombia Queen Charlotte Islands, British Colombia Whitecourt, Alberta Newell County, Alberta Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Melfort, Saskatchewan Virden, Manitoba Altona, Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Whiteshell, Manitoba Images Near Ottawa, Ontario Lake Nipigon Essex County, Southern Ontario Niagara Falls, Ontario Toronto, Ontario Peterborough, Ontario Montr‚al, Qu‚bec Lac Nemiscau, Qu‚bec Qu‚bec, Qu‚bec Gasp‚ Peninsula, Qu‚bec Fredericton, New Brunswick Western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia Summerside, Prince Edward Island Lake Melville, Labrador Trepassey, Newfoundland Labrador Sea
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Yukon

The Liard River Valley Near the Town of Watson Lake
Prime moose and cariboo habitat, Landsat TM

Kluane National Park in 3D perspective
A stereo view of the mountains from space, Landsat TM

Lake Laberge, Yukon
Fly around the marge of Lake Laberge, Landsat 7 ETM

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Northwest Territories

Summer Fires of 1995 in Central Northwest Territories
1.3 million hectares burning! NOAA AVHRR

A delta in motion - the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories
A dynamic combination of water, soil, vegetation and ice, RADARSAT SAR

Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories
Diamonds from a fat lake? IKONOS and Landsat TM

Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River in the the Northwest Territories
Forest fires, oil exploration, a very big river and a small town, Landsat 5 TM

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Nunavut

Rankin Inlet, an Arctic Community North of 60° on Hudson Bay
Ice in July?! Landsat TM

Bathurst Island, Nunavut
A very colourful Arctic Island, CCRS Interferometric SAR

Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
Canada's Gateway to the High Arctic, CCRS Convair 580 with C/X SAR

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British Columbia

Port Renfrew on the West Coast of Vancouver Island
Change detection between 1984 and 1991, Landsat TM

The urban patterns of downtown Vancouver
Stanley Park, Granville Island, Burrard Inlet and even Canada Place are visible! SPOT MLA & Landsat TM

The Beautiful and Mysterious Queen Charlotte Islands
"Haida Gwaii": Islands of the People, Landsat TM

Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia - 
Terminus of the Trans Canada Trail Landsat 7, Enhanced Thematic Mapper +

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Alberta

Downtown Calgary, a Western Canadian Urban Centre
Home of the Calgary Stampede, SPOT PLA

Enigmatic features of the Southern Alberta countryside
Farming, ranching, oil and gas and more!, Landsat 5 TM, SPOT 2 HRV, CASI (96 hyperspectral bands)

Rocky View, a Western Canadian Rural Landscape
Township 25, Range 1, West of the 5th Meridian (just north of Calgary), SPOT PLA

Whitecourt, Alberta
Forests above, oil below, Landsat TM

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Saskatchewan

Enjoy a Warm Reception in Prince Albert
A Prairie town with a big dish! Landsat TM

Microwaving the Crops of Melfort, Saskatchewan!
Agricultural Applications of Microwave (Radar) Remote Sensing, CCRS CV-580 Airborne SAR

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Manitoba

The Assiniboine River near the town of Virden
The spring flood of 1995, Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Farmlands of Altona, Manitoba
Precision agriculture is the target, Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI)

The Windy City: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Transportation hub on the Prairies, Landsat TM

The Canadian Shield exposed at the Manitoba/Ontario border
A paintbrush applied to the Canadian landscape, Landsat TM

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Ontario

Ottawa, Canada's Capital City
Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal, Landsat TM fused with SPOT PLA

Kanata, A Residential Suburb of Ottawa
Fore! Golf anyone? MEIS (high resolution airborne data)

Nepean, A Rural / Urban Boundary near Ottawa
A beautiful autumn day, MEIS (high resolution airborne data)

Essex County, A Farming Region of Southern Ontario
A patch work of fields and Lake Erie, SPOT MLA

The Niagara Peninsula joins Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
See Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls! Landsat TM

Toronto, Canada's largest city
Radar views a metropolis, RADARSAT SAR

Imaging Peterborough as a Map
Mapping Peterborough as an image? Landsat TM and SPOT PLA

Lake Nipigon, Ontario
The Sixth Great Lake? Landsat TM

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Quebec

Downtown Montréal, along the St. Lawrence River
The hustle and bustle of a major urban centre, SPOT PLA

A forest fire burn near Lake Nemiscau, northern Quebec
Can you identify the different land cover types? Landsat TM

See the streets of historic Québec City
This provincial capital is one the oldest European settlements in North America, SPOT PLA & MLA

Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
Jacques Cartier's entry point into "New France" in 1534, Landsat TM

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New Brunswick

Fredericton, the Provincial Capital
Forest activities along the St. John River, Landsat TM

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Prince Edward Island

The City of Summerside and its Environs
Beautiful beaches, bountiful fields and the salty tang of the sea! SPOT MLA

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Nova Scotia

Western Cape Breton Island Near Margaree Harbour
The Cabot Trail and the spruce budworm, Landsat TM

Water Dynamics in the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy
The largest tides in the world! Landsat MSS

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Newfoundland

The community of Trepassey on the Avalon Peninsula
The barren rocky shores of Cape Race, Landsat TM

An Eye on the Labrador Sea
The weather makes a visible impact, RADARSAT SAR

Lake Melville, Labrador
Sheshatshiu and North West River straddle the narrow outlet of Grand Lake, where its waters empty into Lake Melville, Landsat TM

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