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National Forest Inventory GB 2023

Summary

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide.

All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of...

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

The location and extent of all forests and woodlands (0.5 hectares and over) is stored and maintained as a digital map. The changes in the canopy cover are identified from: • Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2023 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment; • New planting information for the financial year 2022/2023, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales; • Transition areas where the difference between the last assessment date (source) and the latest date (source) currently available was greater than 17 years. Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) features have been used as a reference for capturing the woodland boundaries.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

c80b8620-56d1-4945-a34e-92d0b97eb88d


Published by

Forestry Commission


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

11 November 2024

Revision date

11 November 2024

Publication date

11 November 2024

Period

  • From: 01 April 2022
  • To: 31 March 2023

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The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock.Open link