Swedish National Forest Inventory, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU

Description

The Swedish National Forest Inventory has the task of describing the state and changes in Sweden's forests. The information collected is used, for example, as a basis for forestry, energy and environmental policy in Sweden. Data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory is part of Sweden's official statistics. At the heart of the Swedish National Forest Inventory is the annual inventory which is undertaken by ca 50 field workers during the snow free period. Every year an inventory is carried out on ca 12 000 sample plots with measurements collected from ca 95 000 trees and a large range of other variables describing the stand, site and history of the sample plot.

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Karl-Erik Grundberg
email: Karl-Erik.Grundberg@slu.se

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Cornelia Roberge
email: Cornelia.Roberge@slu.se

Swedish National Forest Inventory, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU
901 83
Umeå
SE
email: riksskogstaxeringen@slu.se