Identification

Title

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Woodland sub-compartment data

Alternative title(s)

Data is-adrannau Coetiroedd Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru (CNC)

Abstract

The NRW Woodland Sub-compartment Database (SCDB) is to be our authoritative data source, giving us information for recording, monitoring, analysis and reporting which supports decision-making on the whole of the NRW woodland estate. Information from the SCDB is used by NRW, wider government, industry and the public for economic, environmental and social forest-related decision-making. Furthermore, it supports forest related national policy development and government initiatives, and helps us meet our national and international forest-related reporting responsibilities. The Inventory SCDB, will help provide a definitive measure of trends in extent, structure, composition, health, status, use, and management of NRW land holdings. We require this to meet national and international commitments, to report on the sustainable management of forests as well as to help us through the process of business and Forest Design Planning. As well as helping with the above, the SCDB helps us address detailed requests from industry, government, non-government organisations and the public for information on our estate. NRW's growing national and international responsibilities and the requirements for monitoring and reporting on a range of forest statistics have highlighted the technical challenges we face in providing consistent, national level data.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://lle.gov.wales/catalogue/item/NRWWoodlandSubCompartmentData/?lang=en

name: Download Data and Web Services

http://lle.gov.wales/services/wms/nrw?

name: Web Mapping Service

Unique resource identifier

code

117501

codeSpace

https://naturalresources.wales

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::BNG

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-01-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.77774100

East bounding longitude

-2.60886500

North bounding latitude

53.51306700

South bounding latitude

51.24082900

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

ISO3166 Countries

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-01-17

code identifying the extent

Wales (WLS)

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-04-01

End position

2019-07-19

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-03-01

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Sub-Compartment Database (SCDB) contains a physical description of the land that the NRW manages on behalf of the public’. It was originally a database of individual site or sub-compartment records which contained both crop and site information. The SCDB is not just about trees, 70% of the land that we manage is of a forest nature, yet 30% by definition is not. This non-forest land covers, farmland, open mountaintops, heathland, estuarine and riparian habitats. A sub compartment are area that are similar in land use, species or habitat composition, yield class, age, condition, thinning history etc. to be treated as a single unit. They will generally be contiguous in nature and will not be split by roads, rivers, open space etc. Distinct boundaries are required, and these will often change as crops are felled, thinned, replanted and resurveyed. In some parts of the country foresters used historical and topographical features to delineate sub-compartment boundaries, such as hedges, walls and escarpments. In other areas no account of the history and topography of the site was taken, with field boundaries, hedges, walls, streams etc. being subsumed into the sub-compartment.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

© CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose. Attribution statement: Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

telephone number

0300 065 3000

email address

enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

telephone number

0300 065 3000

email address

enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

responsible party role

originator

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

telephone number

0300 065 3000

email address

enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-01-09

Metadata language

eng