Identification

Title

National Forest Estate Subcompartments England 2019

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

All organisations hold information about the core of their business. The Forestry Commission holds information on trees and forests. We use this information to help us run our business and make decisions. The role of the Forest Inventory (the Sub-compartment Database (SCDB) and the stock maps) is to be our authoritative data source, giving us information for recording, monitoring, analysis and reporting. Through this it supports decision-making on the whole of the FC estate. Information from the Inventory is used by the FC, wider government, industry and the public for economic, environmental and social forest-related decision-making. Furthermore, it supports forestrelated national policy development and government initiatives, and helps us meet our national and international forest-related reporting responsibilities. Information on our current forest resource, and the future expansion and availability of wood products from our forests, is vital for planners both in and outside the FC. It is used when looking at the development of processing industries, regional infrastructure, the effect upon communities of our actions, and to prepare and monitor government policies. The Inventory (SCDB and stock maps), with ‘Future Forest Structure’ and the ‘rollback’ functionality of Forester, will help provide a definitive measure of trends in extent, structure, composition, health, status, use, and management of all FC 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. The FC’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. A well kept and managed SCDB and GIS (Geographical Information System - Forester) will provide the best solution for this and assist Countries in evidence-based policy making. Looking ahead at international reporting commitments; one example of an area where requirements look set to increase will be reporting on our work to combat climate change and how our estate contributes to carbon sequestration. We have put in place processes to ensure that at least the basics of our inventory are covered: 1. The inventory of forests; 2. The land-uses; 3. The land we own ( Deeds); 4. The roads we manage. We depend on others to allow us to manage the forests and to provide us with funds and in doing so we need to be seen to be responsible and accountable for our actions. A foundation of achieving this is good record keeping. A sub compartment should be recognisable on the ground. It will be similar enough 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. Also, these features may or may not appear on the OS backdrop, again this was dependent on the staff involved and what they felt was relevant to the map. The main point is that, as managers we may find such obvious features in the middle of a sub-compartment when nothing is indicated on the stock map, while the same thing would be indicated elsewhere. Attributes; FOREST Cost centre Nos. COMPARTMNT Compartemnt Nos. SUBCOMPT Sub-compartment letter SUBCOMPTID Unique identifier BLOCK Block nos. PRILANDUSE Defined Land Use of primary component PRI_LUCODE Coded Land Use of primary component PRISPECIES Defined Primary component tree species PRI_SPCODE Coded Primary component tree species PRI_PLYEAR prim. component year planted PRIPCTAREA Prim. component %Area of sub-compartment SECLANDUSE Defined Land Use of secondary component SEC_LUCODE Coded Land Use of secondary component SECSPECIES Defined Secondary component tree species SEC_SPCODE Coded Secondary component tree species SEC_PLYEAR Secondary component year planted SECPCTAREA Secondary component %Area of sub-compartment TERLANDUSE Defined Land Use of tertiary component TER_LUCODE Coded Land Use of tertiary component TERSPECIES Defined Tertiary component tree species TER_SPCODE Coded Tertiary component tree species TER_PLYEAR Tertiary component year planted TERPCTAREA Tertiary component %Area of sub-compartment CULTIVATN A defined indication of the way the sub-compartment has been prepared for establishment. CULT_CODE A coded indication of the way the sub-compartment has been prepared for establishment. PRIHABITAT Defined Primary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. PRIHABCODE Coded Primary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. SECHABITAT Defined Secondary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. SECHABCODE Coded secondary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. TERHABITAT Defined Tertiary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. TERHABCODE Coded tertiary component UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) Broad and Priority Habitats. PRI_YIELD Primary component Yield Class index of the potential mean annual volume growth rate SEC_YIELD Secondary component Yield Class index of the potential mean annual volume growth rate TER_YIELD Tertiary component Yield Class index of the potential mean annual volume growth rate Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: National Forest Estate Subcompartments England 2019

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

biota

economy

planningCadastre

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

inventory

survey

sub compartment

Keyword set

keyword value

forest management

forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2010-03-31

date type

revision

effective date

2019-03-31

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

All organisations hold information about the core of their business. The Forestry Commission holds information on trees and forests. We use this information to help us run our business and make decisions. The role of the Forest Inventory (the Sub-compartment Database (SCDB) and the stock maps) is to be our authoritative data source, giving us information for recording, monitoring, analysis and reporting. Through this it supports decision-making on the whole of the FC estate. Information from the Inventory is used by the FC, wider government, industry and the public for economic, environmental and social forest-related decision-making. Furthermore, it supports forestrelated national policy development and government initiatives, and helps us meet our national and international forest-related reporting responsibilities. Information on our current forest resource, and the future expansion and availability of wood products from our forests, is vital for planners both in and outside the FC. It is used when looking at the development of processing industries, regional infrastructure, the effect upon communities of our actions, and to prepare and monitor government policies. The Inventory (SCDB and stock maps), with ‘Future Forest Structure’ and the ‘rollback’ functionality of Forester, will help provide a definitive measure of trends in extent, structure, composition, health, status, use, and management of all FC 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. The FC’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. A well kept and managed SCDB and GIS (Geographical Information System - Forester) will provide the best solution for this and assist Countries in evidence-based policy making. Looking ahead at international reporting commitments; one example of an area where requirements look set to increase will be reporting on our work to combat climate change and how our estate contributes to carbon sequestration. We have put in place processes to ensure that at least the basics of our inventory are covered: 1. The inventory of forests; 2. The land-uses; 3. The land we own ( Deeds); 4. The roads we manage. We depend on others to allow us to manage the forests and to provide us with funds and in doing so we need to be seen to be responsible and accountable for our actions. A foundation of achieving this is good record keeping. A sub compartment should be recognisable on the ground. It will be similar enough 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. Also, these features may or may not appear on the OS backdrop, again this was dependent on the staff involved and what they felt was relevant to the map. The main point is that, as managers we may find such obvious features in the middle of a sub-compartment when nothing is indicated on the stock map, while the same thing would be indicated elsewhere. Attributes; FOREST Cost centre Nos. COMPTMENT Compartemnt Nos. SUBCOMPT Sub-compartment letter SUBCOMPTID Unique identifier BLOCK Block nos. CULTCODE Cultivation Code CULTIVATN Cultivation PRIHABCODE Primary Habitat Code PRIHABITAT Primary Habitat PRILANDUSE Land Use of primary component PRISPECIES Primary component tree species PRI_PLYEAR prim. component year planted PRIPCTAREA Prim. component %Area of sub-compartment SECHABCODE Secondary Habitat Code SECHABITAT Secondary Habitat SECLANDUSE Land Use of secondary component SECSPECIES Secondary component tree species SEC_PLYEAR Secondary component year planted SECPCTAREA Secondary component %Area of sub-compartment TERLANDUSE Land Use of tertiary component TERSPECIES Tertiary component tree species TER_PLYEAR Tertiary component year planted TERPCTAREA Tertiary component %Area of sub-compartment TERHABITAT Tertiary Habitat TERHABCODE Tertiary Habitat Code

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Forestry Commission Spatial Data Policy: Geostore Data Specification

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-01-01

degree

explanation

Data is topologically correct and meets data specification.

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-19

Metadata language

eng