What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| geospatial/movement | Forest agencies and remote-sensing programmes (Global Forest Watch/Hansen, Copernicus, national LiDAR and stand maps), harvester GPS logs… | Per pixel (10–30 m) annual for change detection; per-machine second-level GPS… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Forestry authorities issuing harvesting/felling permits and forest management plans, chain-of-custody certifiers (FSC, PEFC), timber… | Per permit / per certificate / per parcel | public |
| employment & workforce | National labour statistics agencies (NACE 02.20 employment series), forestry contractor associations, workers' compensation boards | Annual or quarterly regional aggregates by NACE class; establishment-level in… | public |
| financial filings | Company registers (business registries, Companies House-type filings), listed timberland REITs and integrated forest products firms, credit… | Per company, annual | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, EU-OSHA, national labour inspectorates), forestry insurers and workers' comp funds — logging is among… | Per incident report; annual injury/fatality rates per industry code | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National met services, forest road frost/thaw restriction authorities, contractors' ground-bearing and operability records | Daily per region / per road segment for haul restrictions | public |
| waste & emissions | National GHG inventory compilers (LULUCF/harvested wood products), research institutes on logging residue and slash volumes, certification… | National annual inventories; per-site residue estimates in studies | public |
| production output | Logging contractors, forest owner associations, national forest inventories and statistical agencies (e.g. FAOSTAT, national roundwood… | Per harvest block / per stand at operator level; monthly-quarterly regional… | public |
| pricing | Timber price reporting services (e.g. TimberMart-South, Forest2Market), state forestry commissions, sawmill buyers, auction platforms for… | Per species and assortment, per region, quarterly or per auction lot | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Logging contractors, timber brokers, mills; timber sale programmes of public forest agencies (US Forest Service, state forests… | Per timber sale contract / per delivered load with scale ticket | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Mills and pulp companies (roadside and mill-yard wood inventories), state forest enterprises, forest inventory contractors | Per landing/yard stock, weekly-monthly; standing inventory per stand | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Harvester head OEMs (John Deere TimberMatic, Ponsse Opti, Komatsu MaxiFleet), telematics providers; StanForD 2010 harvester production… | Per stem / per log measured by harvester head; per machine per shift | partnership |
| energy consumption | Contractors' fuel purchase records, OEM telematics fuel-burn data, life-cycle-inventory studies by forest research institutes (Skogforsk… | Litres per machine-hour or per m³ harvested; study-level averages | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Timber haulage firms, mill weighbridge systems, wood-flow coordination platforms (e.g. Biometria in Sweden, VMF, Timbeter), rail operators… | Per truckload/shipment with origin landing, destination mill, weight and species | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Timber scaling/measurement bureaus (Biometria, VMF, US log scaling bureaus), FSC/PEFC audit bodies, EUDR due-diligence verifiers | Per load scaled / per audit report per certificate holder | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Contractors and OEM fleet platforms tracking machine utilisation rates and productive machine hours | Per machine per shift/day | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Machine OEM dealers and telematics platforms, logging contractors' fleet maintenance systems | Per machine, per service event and engine-hour reading | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.