Multi-source National Forest Inventory (MVMI) map data 2009

The Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla) developed the so-called national forests multi-source Inventory (MVMI) and introduced it in the year 1990. Terrain data, satellite images and other numerical geospatial data producing municipality-specific forest resource estimates and map format forest resource information. Most of the country has been produced with 5 map theme set and Lapland 4. The most recent survey in 2009 is 43. the theme, in addition to the volumes of timber species, and stand-by-strip biomass. The first product was produced in the whole country. from 1990 to 1994; the most recent are from 2005, 2007 and 2009. MVMI 2011 it will be completed in early 2013. In the first phase of free distribution are: map-based results for 2009. In the future, new themes will be produced by one or every two years. Metla has decided to put map-shaped themes openly to share. The material is in raster form, 20mx20m in lattice ETRS-TM35FIN coordinate system and covers forest land (From the NMI-category to forest, stubble and wasteland). In this case, the rest of the country and the waters are demarcated using elements of a terrain database that: it is mainly equivalent to other NMI’s categories of countries. The material download service is at http://kartta.luke.fi/