CARABAS-II campaign Vidsel 2002. Forest Report

In relation to studies performed by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) a detailed forest inventory in the study area has been carried out. The inventory was preformed nearby the village Nausta at the RFN missile range, Vidsel, Sweden. The forest at each study site was divided into homogenous forest stands with respect to forest characteristics. The inventory resulted in stand-wise average estimations of important forest parameters, e.g. stem volume, stem number density, tree height, and stem diameter. The positions for the objects studied by FOI were collected using GPSmeasurements. At each object detailed measurements of single tree positions and single tree characteristics were made, which makes it possible to create detailed models of the forest nearby the objects studied. The field measurements were conducted 2002-06-12--15 by Fredrik Walter, Dianthus, and Johan Fransson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The collected and processed data presented here are available in digital form on a CD issued by F0I. The corresponding file names are given throughout this report.