Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE)

Dataset Information
Name  Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE)
UUID  c9af7f40-3143-481f-9b1c-487461cc7196
Site  Population Data BC
Region  British Columbia
Description  The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) collates and generates standard measures of environmental factors and provides these data to a wide range of health data organizations who pre-link and distribute them to the Canadian research community. Exposure metrics currently distributed by CANUE include air quality (nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and fine particulate matter concentrations), green and blue spaces (Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR normalized difference vegetation indices), neighbourhood factors (access to employment, material and social deprivation indices, marginalization indices, nighttime light, and active living environments), and weather and climate (weather indicators, local climate zones, and water balance).
Format  FLAT
Purpose  Research
Scope  Provincial
Data Level  None
Collection Period  From 1983; varies by dataset
Last Updated 2024-01-04