Generating Climate Smart Timber Products Data and Web App
In partnership with the Climate Smart Wood Group and Vibrant Planet, Vibrant Planet Data Commons is developing a simple, user-friendly web application that covers the contiguous U.S. to allow the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) community to differentiate between wood products based on forest carbon and associated ecosystem impacts. The data shared will enable an improved understanding of the carbon benefits and burdens associated with varying approaches to timber production, along with an ability to effectively differentiate timber produced from different ownerships and regions of the USA. Forest carbon, disturbance classification, and timber output data will be shared in a timeseries for each landowner type in each county, going back in time as far as 1990 or 2000.