Swedish National Forest Inventory: Sample plot data
April 2025
Metadata
Publisher
Department of Forest Resource Management
Funding agency
SLU, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Keywords
forest, forest land, tree, tree species, production, quality, timber stock, tree biomass, growth, remote sensing
Data citation
More information on How to cite data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory (pdf).
File format
xlsx
Start date
01/01/2007
Frequency of update
Annually
Limitations with regard to usage
As the dataset is designed to be used as validation data for remote sensing, it does not include sample plots that lie on boundaries, e.g. between ownership types or stands. The dataset should therefore not be used for estimating totals or averages for an area.
Subject area
Habitat type
Species group
Swedish environmental objectives
A subset of field data collected from the Swedish National Forest Inventory temporary sample plots, developed to be used as validation data for remote sensing. Variables in the dataset include descriptions of stand age, height, density and volume, as well as soil properties and vegetation.
Download data
Data can be downloaded from website of the Swedish National Forest Inventory: Sample plot data.