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 6
map theme set and Lapland 5.The latest report for 2011 is 45.
the theme, in addition to the volumes of timber species, and
wood-stained biomass.The first product was produced in the whole country.
from 1990 to 1994;the most recent are from 2005, 2007, 2009 and
2011. Metla decided in November 2012 to put the 2009 map-shaped themes
openly to share, and the results for 2011 are the second
a map set for free distribution.New themes in the future
produced every one or two years. The map-formed data are
in raster form, 20mx20m in lattice in ETRS-TM35FIN coordinate system and
cover forestry land (from the NMI-category to forest, stubble and wasteland).
Here, here
in the data, other land and water areas are demarcated using the terrain database
elements which correspond mainly to the categories of land other than forest land of the VMI,
squirrel and wasteland.
Materials
the download service is available at http://kartta.luke.fi/
Build on reliable and scalable technology
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Some basic informations about API Store ®.
Operation and development of APIs are currently fully funded by company Apitalks and its usage is for free.
Yes, you can.
All important information such as time of last update, license and other information are in response of each API call.
In case of major update that would not be compatible with previous version of API, we keep for 30 days both versions so you will have enough time to transfer to new version. We will inform you about the changes in advance by e-mail.