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| IFN100A - Forest, other wooded land and trees outside the forest, groups of species |
| Definition |
Forest represent land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ (it does not include: junipers and green alder forests, regenerated areas and young trees, exploited areas, burned areas or with wind fellings), and forest vegetation width must be at least 20m. Includes nurseries and forestry plantations, forest roads, small areas of bare forest, windbreaks more than 0.5 hectares and width must be at least 20m. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural land use.
Land cover with forest are lands where trees are found growing as defined by forest.
Land for afforestation are temporary land without trees, because they have been exploited, burned or damaged by felling caused by wind, snow and other causes.
Other bare land is empty land without trees (forest roads, parcel lines, small bare surfaces and other.
Other wooded land represent land spanning more than 0.5 hectares, width must be at least 20m with trees higher than 5meters and a canopy cover of 5-10percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds; or with a combined cover of shrubs, bushes and trees above 10 percent. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural land use.
Trees outside the forest represent all land with tree cover that is not classified as forest or other wooded land. Includes trees from all land classified as forest or other wooded land but span less than 0.5ha or tree lines less than 20 meters wide, groups of trees and scattered trees in agricultural landscape, parks, gardens and around buildings, aligments along streets, roads, railways, rivers, streams and canals, windbreaks with a width less than 20m or area under 0.5ha. |
| Periodicity |
5 years |
| Data sources |
The National Forest Inventory (NFI):http://www.roifn.ro/ |
| Methodology |
The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is the main instrument to assess country's forest resources, and it has to answer to the ever increasing needs of information on forest. The main task of NFI consists of collecting, storing, managing an analyzing data and information regarding forest resources, as well as of publishing the study outcomes. NFI is designed as a continuous forest inventory based on systematic sampling method, combined with multiple stages and is performed at a frequency of a 5 years. |
| Last update |
AUG 05, 2019 |
| Observations |
Result of the first cycle of the NFI (2008-2012) and of the second cycle of the NFI (2013-2017). |
| Responsible person |
Nutescu Olvian, e-mail: olivian.nutescu@insse.ro, int. 2474 |
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