Landscape Analysis Tool
About the Landscape Analysis Tool (LAT)
The Landscape Analysis Tool (LAT) is a web-enabled spatial tool that allows users to plan activities on Crown land. The
LAT enables:
- Virtual siting of a proposed project activities
- Identification of operational constraints that may apply to the activity
- Virtual re-siting or changes to that proposed activity, at a landscape level, to mitigate concerns prior to application.
For further information see the Landscape Analysis Tool User Guide at:
LAT Features
The Landscape Analysis Tool:
- Provides a consistent platform for spatial information for industry and SRD around disposition planning and application
- Identifies areas requiring higher levels of risk mitigation planning
- Links to approval standards and operating conditions directly related to a planned activity and location. The LAT attaches
the appropriate approval standards and operating conditions from the Integrated Standards and Guidelines documents to a
LAT report based on the proposed activity and location, and sensitivity layers intersected.
- Is used to assist in the issuance of Temporary Field Authorizations when required.
- Uses approximately 80 data layers, divided into two categories of features:
- Base Features - Data layers that provide the user with information and guidance in the placement of their activity (i.e.
municipal boundaries, topography, soils information).
- Sensitive Features - Data layers that where intersected by the activity have specific and direct standards or conditions
that may affect or guide the presence, construction or management of an activity (i.e. wildlife and vegetation).
LAT Report
The Landscape Analysis Tool (LAT) will generate a LAT Report, which is a system generated PDF document that provides information
specific to the proposed site and activity.
The LAT Report provides provincial and sensitivity section approval standards and operating conditions that are specific
to a proposed activity. The approval standards and operating conditions identified in the LAT Report form a part of the
disposition document.
Provincial and sensitivity section Approval Standards identified on a valid LAT report can be used to make the standard/non-standard
decision.
The LAT Report allows the user to:
- Make informed decisions
- Make adjustments to the project if desired
- Apply appropriate standards, conditions or risk mitigation
The LAT Report is required as part of your application submission. See:
Contacts
For more information about the Landscape Analysis Tool, contact:
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Updated: Jun 1, 2011