Data Sources:
DataBC.ca
UBC Forestry CFCG
UBC Department of Geography
Environment Canada’s Wind Energy Atlas
Software:
ArcGIS (version 10.2.2 & 10.2)
QGIS (version 2.6.0)
SAS 9.4
Microsoft Excel (with SAS Add-In 7.1 for Microsoft Office)
ClimateBC (version 5.03) – We discovered a bug in the 5.03 version and the bug is now fixed in version 5.04
MATLAB (2014a & 2013a Student Version)
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