Managed Woodland Performance Indicator for England, 2013

Forestry Commission England's 2013 Headline Performance Indicator dataset measures the percentage of woodland in active management. The data is a georeferenced raster file with 25-meter cells classifying woodland as managed (1) or unmanaged (0). It integrates administrative data from grant schemes, felling licenses, and the Public Forest Estate against the National Forest Inventory baseline.

Use Cases

• Mapping actively managed vs. unmanaged woodland areas based on the binary raster classification.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of forestry grant schemes and felling licenses mentioned in the description.
• Modeling woodland management trends over time using the defined administrative data sources and time thresholds.
• Assessing the coverage of the Public Forest Estate and its contribution to the overall management indicator.

Strengths

• Provides a clear operational definition of 'actively managed' woodland based on eight specific administrative data sources.
• Data is provided as a georeferenced raster file with a defined 25-meter cell size.
• The denominator for the indicator calculation is explicitly stated as the National Forest Inventory area.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Commission England, via the Government Digital Service and eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Integration of multiple administrative data sources (grant schemes, felling licenses, estate records) and the National Forest Inventory.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2013.

Freshness

Data reflects the snapshot as of 31 December 2013.

Geography

England.