News

• Important notice for VDYP 7 users [download] Posted 17 June 2009

• Important notice on VDYP 7 Species Composition Percentage and species volume magnitude

During the development of VDYP 7, the issue of shifting the species composition expression
from being based on volume to being based on basal area was raised. The key participants in
the development at that time determined that the change in standard had implications on the
arrangement of the species by size of percent.

Dowload document [here] Posted 27 February 2009

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• Ownership coverage currently available for internal users. It can be found at the following link:

on the "marble archive" server:

\\marble\archive\FOR\VIC\HTS\
FAIB_DATA_FOR_DISTRIBUTION\F_Ownership_Data

Documentation can be down load [here]

 

• Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch (FAIB) is pleased to announce that the new Provincial Forest Cover Data is currently available in the Land and Resource Data Warehouse (LRDW).
  
  The data layers have undergone a number of changes that while improving its usability will impact some who have become familiar with this data structure over the last three years.
  
  Download document changes to attributes [download]

Director's Announcement on Letter Provincial Forest Cover Data [download]

 

• Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch has opened access to VRI data to the public by making it freely accessible and available via the internet.  Digital Data Exchange Agreements are no longer needed. The data distribution is provided through the Natural Resource Information Center  (NRIC) website.  Since making this data available about 6 gigabytes of VRI data have been downloaded each month.