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Data Sources

Digital Elevation Model accessed from: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5771199a57cc4c29ad9791022acd7f74#

Population centres shapefile accessed from: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/84a9b280-ede5-42df-a98a-62489eb46aa8

Coastline polyline shapefile accessed from: https://mapcruzin.com/free-canada-british-columbia-arcgis-maps-shapefiles.htm

Inland water features shapefile accessed from: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/448ec403-6635-456b-8ced-d3ac24143add

Transportation network shapefile accessed from: ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/sections/outgoing/bmgs/DRA_Public

Potential photovoltaic output raster accessed from: https://solargis.com/maps-and-gis-data/overview

Transmission line shapefile accessed from: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-transmission-lines#edc-pow

Outline of BC shapefile accessed from: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-provincial-boundaries-lines-1-2-000-000-digital-baseline-mapping

Land Use shapefile accessed from: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/parcelmap-bc-parcel-fabric/resource/b3a8efef-d540-412c-9f44-f0ba5d79f575#edc-pow

Indigenous reserve shapefile: https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/file.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:11272.1/AB2/XU2J09/KXACEG

Critical Habitat geodatabase: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/6a6f314b-5272-4e7a-ac4e-8d372990f22f