Warning: Undefined array key "DW68700bfd16c2027de7de74a5a8202a6f" in /home/.sites/34/site2020/web/wikialps/lib/plugins/translation/action.php on line 237 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/.sites/34/site2020/web/wikialps/lib/plugins/translation/action.php on line 237 ====== Fuel wood - Flow ====== ==== General description ==== Not all forests can be managed equally: accessibility (infrastructure) and technical feasibility (due to topography) play a crucial role in sustainable forest management. Hence, this indicator reflects the timber removals for fuel wood production considering both the forest accessibility (based on the OSM layer) and topographical site condition (slope angle from DEM). Data for timber removals are taken from national forestry inventories. **Flowchart below **describes in detail the calculation procedure to derive the amount of fuelwood (m³/ha/year) produced per local administrative units (LAU2) of the Alpine Space. The procedure consists of two main parts: * **Calculation of the accessible forest areas (Step 1 and 2):** typically, commercial wood production occurs only on forests that are accessible and workable in terms of topographic conditions. Hence, in the following analysis only accessible and workable forest areas are included. * **Calculation of the amount of fuelwood produced in each LAU2 (Step 3 and 4**): The statistical data about the amount of felling is disaggregated at LAU2 level using results from part 1. ==== Input data ==== //GIS-Data// * **Forest roads: **open street map layer (OSM) Source: [[http://download.geofabrik.de/|http://download.geofabrik.de/]]. The roads classified as “bridleway”, “service”, “track”, “track_grade1”, “track_grade2”, “track_grade3”, “track_grade4”, “track_grade5”, “unclassified” and “unknown” are used. * **Forest**: High-resolution tree-cover-density layer Source**[[http://land.copernicus.eu/|: http://land.copernicus.eu/]]. **Pixels with a density between 30-100% are used; forest in agricultural and urban areas is removed. * **Digital Elevation Model****: **Elevation raster dataset Source:**[[http://land.copernicus.eu/|http://land.copernicus.eu]],**v1.0 * **LAU2 layer: **Boundaries of the local administrative units Source:**[[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap| http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap]]; **version 10. * **Region layer:**Boundaries of the areas for which the statistical data is available.Statistical data about the amount of felled wood is typically not available at LAU level; hence, for every country we used the finest available resource. Because these datasets have different resolutions and names, we call them “region layers” in the following description. The original names/resolutions for the different countries are the following: -Germany: Growing regions Source:[[https://gdi.thuenen.de/wo/wgwb/| https://gdi.thuenen.de/wo/wgwb/]] -Switzerland: Production regions* -France: Nuts 2 Source:[[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap| http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap]] -Italy: Nuts 2 Source:[[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap|http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/]][[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap|euroboundarymap]] -Liechtenstein: Nuts 2 Source:[[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap| http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/]][[http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap|euroboundarymap]] -Austria: “Bezirke” Source:[[http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/geojson-daten-osterreich| http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/]][[http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset/geojson-daten-osterreich|geojson-daten-osterreich]] -Slovenia: Forest regions (dataset provided by the Slovenian Forest Institute) **//Statistical data//**//:// * **Statistical data about roundwood production**: The amount of wood that is extracted from the forest. Source: Forest inventories of single countries * Percentage of roundwood transformed into fuelwood Source:[[http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Wood_products_-_production_and_trade| http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Wood_products_-_production_and_trade]] **__Variables____:__ ** * Maximum access distance = **200m (after Clouet, N. and Berger, F., 2009) ** **__Calculation processes__ ** **(1) Calculation of the slope angle of accessible forest:**Forested areas within the maximum access distance from forest roads are extracted from the original forest layer and their slope is calculated (in %) The 200m serve as a threshold, all pixels that are further away from the street are not considered in the following calculation. **(2) Calculation of access distance: **Based on Clouet & Berger (2009), the maximum distance from which every pixel (extracted in Step 1) can be accessed, due to its topographic conditions, is calculated. The access distance of a pixel can be lower than the actual distance from the street and therefore, all pixels that are further away from the road than their access distance are removed. **(3) Disaggregation of statistical data to LAU2 level:**The data about the production of roundwood is disaggregated to LAU2 level via the share of accessible forest in every LAU2. //statistical data about fellings/accessible forest in region = average fellings per unit of accessible forest// //average felling*accessible forest in LAU= LAU fellings// Dividing the statistical data by the accessible forest area in each region gives an average value of the produced roundwood per accessible forest for each region. For all LAUs in the region, this average value is multiplied with the total accessible forest area of the LAU2. The result is the amount of roundwood that is produced in the LAU2. **(4) Calculation of fuelwood production:** With statistical data about the share of roundwood that is transformed into fuelwood, the amount of fuelwood that is produced in every LAU2 is estimated. {{:en:fuelwood_flow.jpg?nolink&603x1200}} {{:en:test_legens.jpg?nolink&500x297}} __References:__ __Clouet, N.; Berger, F. (2009): Modélisation des surfaces débardables au tracteur forestier en zone de montagne. SIG 2009. Confeérence Francophone ESRI__