This is 2016 Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory (NFI) Map for Great Britain. The NFI programme monitors woodland and trees across Great Britain. The NFI provides an extensive and unique record of key information about our forests and woodlands. This dataset includes Interpreted Forest Types (IFTs) for all woodland over 0.5ha and Interpreted Open Area (IOA) information for areas over 0.5ha that are completely surrounded by woodland.

The NFI woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover (or the potential to achieve it) and a minimum width of 20 metres, including areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restocked areas.The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. The woodland map is continually updated on an annual basis. The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on remote sensing imagery taken during spring/summer 2016 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment. Additionally, new planting information from grant schemes and the FE sub-compartment database for the financial year 2017/2018 have been added to the woodland map.

The NFI definition of woodland is a minimum area of 0.5 hectares under stands of trees with, or with the potential to achieve, tree crown cover of more than 20% of the ground.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size. Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the expectation of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features. The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriated. The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on: Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2023 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment; New planting information for the financial year 2022/2023, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales; Transition areas where the difference between the last assessment date (source) and the latest date (source) currently available was greater than 17 years. Woodland areas, greater than 0.5 hectares, are classified as an interpreted forest type (IFT) from aerial photography and satellite imagery. Non-woodland areas, open areas greater than 0.5 hectare completely surrounded by woodland are described according to open area types. IFT categories are Conifer, Broadleaved, Mixed mainly conifer, Mixed mainly broadleaved, Coppice, Coppice with standards, Shrub, Young trees, Felled, Ground prep, Cloud \ shadow, Uncertain, Low density, Assumed woodland, Failed, Windblow. IOA categories are Open water, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban, Road, River, Powerline, Quarry, Bare area, Windfarm, Other vegetation. For further information regarding the interpreted forest types (IFT) and the interpreted open areas (IOA) please see NFI description of attributes available on www.forestresearch.gov.uk Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size.Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the exception of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features.The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriate.The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on:• Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2018 or colour aerial orthophotography available at the time of the assessment;• New planting information for the financial year 2018/2019, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry and Land Scotland;• Woodland Carbon Code dataset was also used to revised areas of approved new planting outside the existing approved grant schemes.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size. Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the expectation of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features. The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriated. The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on: • Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2021 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment; • New planting information for the financial year 2020/2021, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry and Land Scotland; Woodland areas, greater than 0.5 hectares, are classified as an interpreted forest type (IFT) from aerial photography and satellite imagery. Non-woodland areas, open areas greater than 0.5 hectare completely surrounded by woodland are described according to open area types. IFT categories are Conifer, Broadleaved, Mixed mainly conifer, Mixed mainly broadleaved, Coppice, Coppice with standards, Shrub, Young trees, Felled, Ground prep, Cloud \ shadow, Uncertain, Low density, Assumed woodland, Failed, Windblow. IOA categories are Open water, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban, Road, River, Powerline, Quarry, Bare area, Windfarm, Other vegetation. For further information regarding the interpreted forest types (IFT) and the interpreted open areas (IOA) please see NFI description of attributes available on www.forestresearch.gov.uk

The NFI definition of woodland is a minimum area of 0.5 hectares under stands of trees with, or with the potential to achieve, tree crown cover of more than 20% of the ground.

The NFI definition of woodland is a minimum area of 0.5 hectares under stands of trees with, or with the potentialto achieve, tree crown cover of more than 20% of the ground.Areas of young trees, which have the potential to achieve a canopy cover of more than 20%, will also beinterpreted as woodland and mapped. The minimum width for woodland is 20 m, although where woodlands areconnected by a narrow neck of woodland less than 20 m wide, the break may be disregarded if less than 20 m inextent.Intervening land classes such as Roads - all 'tarmac' roads should be excluded from the woodland area, butinternal forest tracks, farmers tracks, rides etc. will be included as part of the woodland if < 20m wide.Rivers - where the gap in woodland is 20m then rivers will be excluded from the woodland area.Power lines etc. - where the gap in woodland is 20m then power lines will be excluded from the woodland area.Railways - all normal gauge railways should be excluded from woodland Scrubby vegetation" is included within this survey where low woody growth seems to dominate a likely woodland site. The definition of an open area is any open area that is 20m wide and 0.5 ha in extent and is completely surrounded by woodland.The woodland boundaries have been interpreted from colour aerial orthophotographic imagery. For the base map,photographic images aimed to be no older than 3 years at the time of mapping (i.e. areas mapped in 2007 wouldbe based on photographs that were ideally taken no earlier than 2004). As the map is be the basis for a longerrolling programme of sample field surveys it has been necessary to develop procedures to update the map to thedate of the field survey, currently 2011, for the purpose of reporting on the current phase.The map is continually updated on an annual basis. These updates will are achieved by a combination of remotesensing and updated aerial imagery analysis for changes in the woodland structure and with reference toavailable new planting information from grant schemes and the FE sub-compartment database.Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) features have been used as a reference for capturing the woodlandboundaries. OSMM is the most up to date large-scale digital map of GB providing a seamless database for1:1250, 1:2500 and 1:10000 survey data.All woodland (both urban and rural, regardless of ownership) which is 0.5ha or greater in extent, with theexception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1ha or greater in extend, as been mappedWoodland that is less than 0.5ha in extent will not be described within the dataset but will be included in aseparate sample survey of small woodland and tree features.The primary objective is to create a new digital map of all woodland in Great Britain using O.S.MasterMap features as boundaries where appropriate. The map shows the extent of all woodland of 0.5 ha.Woodland categories are defined by IFT (Interpreted Forest Type) values. Detailed Woodland categories are:BroadleavedConiferFelledGround Prepared for New PlantingMixed - predominantly BroadleavedMixed - predominantly ConiferYoung TreesCoppiceCoppice with StandardsShrub LandUncertainCloud or ShadowLow DensityAssumed woodlandFailedWindthrow/WindblowNon woodland categories are defined by the IOA (Interpreted Open Area) values. Detailed Non woodland categories are:Agriculture landBare areaGrassOpen waterOther vegetationPower lineQuarryRiverRoadUrbanWindfarm

This is 2018 Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory (NFI) Map for Scotland. The NFI programme monitors woodland and trees. The NFI provides an extensive and unique record of key information about our forests and woodland.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide.

All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size.

Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the expectation of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features.

The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriated.

The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on: • Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2022 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment; • New planting information for the financial year 2021/2022, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales;

Woodland areas, greater than 0.5 hectares, are classified as an interpreted forest type (IFT) from aerial photography and satellite imagery. Non-woodland areas, open areas greater than 0.5 hectare completely surrounded by woodland are described according to open area types.

IFT categories are Conifer, Broadleaved, Mixed mainly conifer, Mixed mainly broadleaved, Coppice, Coppice with standards, Shrub, Young trees, Felled, Ground prep, Cloud \ shadow, Uncertain, Low density, Assumed woodland, Failed, Windblow.

IOA categories are Open water, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban, Road, River, Powerline, Quarry, Bare area, Windfarm, Other vegetation.

For further information regarding the interpreted forest types (IFT) and the interpreted open areas (IOA) please see NFI description of attributes available on www.forestresearch.gov.uk

This is 2016 Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory (NFI) Map for Scotland. The NFI programme monitors woodland and trees across Great Britain

This is 2017 Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory (NFI) Map for Scotland. The NFI programme monitors woodland and trees across Great Britain. The NFI provides an extensive and unique record of key information about our forests and woodlands.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size. Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the expectation of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features. The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriate. The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on; ~ Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2018 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment; ~ New planting information for the financial year 2018/2019, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales; ~ Bluesky’s National Tree Map (NTM) dataset was used to revise woodland areas between 1 and 2 ha in England and Wales; ~ Woodland Carbon Code dataset was also used to revised areas of approved new planting outside the existing approved grant schemes. Woodland areas, greater than 0.5 hectares, are classified as an interpreted forest type (IFT) from aerial photography and satellite imagery. Non-woodland areas, open areas greater than 0.5 hectare completely surrounded by woodland are described according to open area types. IFT categories are Conifer, Broadleaved, Mixed mainly conifer, Mixed mainly broadleaved, Coppice, Coppice with standards, Shrub, Young trees, Felled, Ground prep, Cloud \ shadow, Uncertain, Low density, Assumed woodland, Failed, Windblow. IOA categories are Open water, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban, Road, River, Powerline, Quarry, Bare area, Windfarm, Other vegetation. For further information regarding the interpreted forest types (IFT) and the interpreted open areas (IOA) please see NFI description of attributes available on http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/

This interactive map service contains the following Forestry Commission Scotland inventory and survey data layers:-

• Native Woodland - Integrated Habitat Network
• National Forest Inventory (NFI)
• Native Woodland Survey of Scotland (NWSS)
• Caledonian Pinewood Inventory (CP)
• Pinewood Zone
• Forest Reproductive Materials (FRM)
• Regions of Provenance

The layers can be switched on and off independently of each other.

Forestry Commission Scotland would like to thank Scottish Natural Heritage for their co-operation in hosting this web service on behalf of FCS.

PLEASE NOTE: In order to upload this Web Map Service into desktop GIS (eg. ESRI's ArcGIS), copy and paste the 'OnLine Resource' URL shown below up to, and including the '?'. ie:- https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/arcgis/services/fcs_inventories_and_surveys/MapServer/WMSServer?

Riparian woodland in Scotland identified using a combination of existing open datasets. Search area is 20m either side of water courses. Includes coniferous and broadleaved woodland, native and non-native. Woodland datasets include Native Woodland Survey of Scotland, Smallwoods dataset from Forest Research, National Forest Inventory. Additional areas are included where these had been highlighted using height data and manually checked in aerial imagery. Minimum patch size is 2000m2. Search area is 20m either side of water courses. Underlying water courses are combination of OS open rivers, Vector Map District, SEPA open rivers, Open Street Map water courses. All are line datasets apart from Vector Map District which is a polygon dataset. Therefore the width of wider rivers has been taken into account.

This is 2018 Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory (NFI) Map for Great Britain. The NFI programme monitors woodland and trees. The NFI provides an extensive and unique record of key information about our forests and woodland.

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide.All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size.Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the expectation of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features.The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriated.The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on:Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2023 or colour aerial orthophotographic imagery available at the time of the assessment;New planting information for the financial year 2022/2023, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales;Transition areas where the difference between the last assessment date (source) and the latest date (source) currently available was greater than 17 years.Woodland areas, greater than 0.5 hectares, are classified as an interpreted forest type (IFT) from aerial photography and satellite imagery. Non-woodland areas, open areas greater than 0.5 hectare completely surrounded by woodland are described according to open area types.IFT categories are Conifer, Broadleaved, Mixed mainly conifer, Mixed mainly broadleaved, Coppice, Coppice with standards, Shrub, Young trees, Felled, Ground prep, Cloud \ shadow, Uncertain, Low density, Assumed woodland, Failed, Windblow.IOA categories are Open water, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban, Road, River, Powerline, Quarry, Bare area, Windfarm, Other vegetation.For further information regarding the interpreted forest types (IFT) and the interpreted open areas (IOA) please see NFI description of attributes available on www.forestresearch.gov.uk

SCOTLAND -LCS88 Woodland Polygon >2ha Data updated by Woodland Surveys for the National Inventory of Woodland and Trees to include Forestry Commission (FC) new planting, New Woodland Grant Schemes, woodland in urban and woodland beneath cloud/shadow, at 31st March 2002 (Woodland areas are considered to have greater than 50% cover by tree crowns) Feature Attributes; Featcode Interpreted forest type (IFT) Code e.g. 76 IFT Interpreted forest type (IFT) e.g. Broadleaved Ref_date Reference date ENGLAND - Interpreted Forest Type Woodland Polygon >2ha Data updated by Woodland Surveys for the National Inventory of Woodland and Trees to include Forestry Commission (FC) new planting and New Woodland Grant Schemes, as at 31st March 2002. Woodland consists of areas of tree cover with a crown density of, or likely to achieve, at least 20%, a minimum width of 50 metres and a minimum area of 2ha. Woodland also includes areas that may temporarily be without tree cover following forest operations such as felling. Within woodlands, internal polygons may be identified with a minimum area of 1ha. Feature Attributes; Featcode Interpreted forest type (IFT) Code e.g. 76 IFT Interpreted forest type (IFT) e.g. Broadleaved Ref_date Reference date Tile_name 100k Tile reference Up_type Update source (for polygons updated after 1995) WGS, FC New Planting, API or NFS (Notified by Field Surveyor) WALES - Interpreted Forest Type Woodland Polygon >2ha Data updated by Woodland Surveys for the National Inventory of Woodland and Trees to include Forestry Commission (FC) new planting and New Woodland Grant Schemes, as at 31st March 2002. Woodland consists of areas of tree cover with a crown density of, or likely to achieve, at least 20%, a minimum width of 50 metres and a minimum area of 2ha. Woodland also includes areas that may temporarily be without tree cover following forest operations such as felling. Within woodlands, internal polygons may be identified with a minimum area of 1ha. Feature Attributes; Featcode Interpreted forest type (IFT) Code e.g. 76 IFT Interpreted forest type (IFT) e.g. Broadleaved Ref_date Reference datehttps://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/3107/nigreatbritain.pdf

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map covers all forest and woodland area over 0.5 hectare with a minimum of 20% canopy cover, or the potential to achieve it, and a minimum width of 20 metres. This includes areas of new planting, clearfell, windblow and restock. The woodland map excludes all 'tarmac' roads and active railways, and forest roads, rivers and powerlines where the gap in the woodland is greater than 20 meters wide. All woodland (both urban and rural), regardless of ownership, is 0.5 hectare or greater in extent, with the exception of Assumed woodland or Low density areas that can be 0.1 hectare or greater in extent. Also, in the case of woodland areas that cross the countries borders, the minimum size restriction does not apply if the overall area complies with the minimum size.Woodland less than 0.5 hectare in extent, with the exception of the areas above, will not be described within the dataset but will be included in a separate sample survey of small woodland and tree features.The woodland map is updated on an annual basis and the changes in the woodland boundaries use the Ordnance Survey MasterMap® (OSMM) as a reference where appropriate.The changes in the canopy cover have been identified on:• Sentinel 2 imagery taken during spring/summer 2018 or colour aerial orthophotography available at the time of the assessment;• New planting information for the financial year 2018/2019, from grant schemes and the sub-compartment database covering the estate of Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales;• Bluesky’s National Tree Map (NTM) dataset was used to revise woodland areas between 1 and 2 ha in England and Wales;• Woodland Carbon Code dataset was also used to revised areas of approved new planting outside the existing approved grant schemes.

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