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Sample Plot & Spacing

Size your forest inventory: plot area, number of plots and the systematic grid spacing for a target sampling intensity.

Who it's for: Forest technicians, CFUG inventory teams and students designing a plot survey.

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Open data

Released, with attribution.

Where a dataset can safely be public, we release it. Credit GeoSutra and the partners named.

Open sources we build on: GBIF · iNaturalist · NASA FIRMS · CHELSA · Copernicus · OpenStreetMap / HOTOSM (ODbL) · national boundaries. How we handle data: data governance.