Forest Resource Data

The Sewdish National Forest Inventory
photo: Åke Brunh

Welcome to the Department of Forest Resource Data. Our primary task is to undertake the Swedish National Forest Inventory, and based on this data to be a key source of forestry data in Sweden. The data colleted describe both the state and changes in Swedish forests. The data is used for example as a basis for political decisions within the forestry, environmental and energy sectors. Data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory are part of Sweden Offical Statistics. More..

Briefly about

Monitoring state and change in Swedish forests

Primary task

To undertake a quality controlled annual random sample survey covering the whole of Sweden, with an emphasis on forestland.

Staff

Publications

Skogsdata 2010 - Current data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory (In Swedish, English summary, table text and figure text).

News

2012-03-09 - New digital forest map from SLU
How do the forests look like where you live? With the help of skogskarta.slu.se you can see how much forest there is in a defined area and even which species there are and how old the forest is.

2011-11-14 - Swedish NFI and Swedish Environmental Research Institute cooperate with moss sampling for air pollution monitoring
Since the 1970's deposition of metals - arsenic, lead, iron, cadmium, copper, chromium, mercury, nickle, vanadium and zink - have been monitered through moss samples. During the 2010 field season the Swedish...

2011-11-14 - Swedish NFI contributes to Skog och Mark 2011 report
The Swedish National Forest Inventory has contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency report Skog och Mark 2011 (Forest and Land 2011).

2011-10-13 - The National Forest Inventory an important contibuter to the Swedsih Statistical Yearbook of Forestry
The Swedish Forestry Agency has recently presented its annual statistical yearbook on their website www.skogsstyrelsen.se . This publication which is also availble in printed form is part of Sweden Official...

2011-09-26 - New official statistics from the Swedish National Forestry Inventory
Continued positive trend in standing volume in Swedish forests. One of the results shown in new official statistics from the Swedish National Forest Inventory

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