Data

UIEF 4.0 is the University of Idaho Experimental Forest’s digital twin. The viewer is a smart and digital forestry web app provided to encourage researchers and instructors inside and outside the University to explore available spatial data from the forest that can then be accessed as service layers for analysis and application development through the UIEF AGOL Group. To explore in UIEF 4.0, please click on the following image and select either the 2D or 3D viewer:

Purchasing UIEF spatial data for research and teaching

Curated data packages from the UIEF that include two decades of airborne lidar over 8,000 acres, stand management boundaries, and current, new (2025) permanent plot measurements paired with airborne laser scanning (ALS) and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data are available for license and purchase by other Universities to support research and teaching. Please contact cnr-uief@uidaho.edu for license fees and use agreements.

The UIEF Research Exchange is the Experimental Forest’s digital repository for past, published research. Publications are referenced by location on the UIEF and can be searched by subject. To access the Research Exchange, please click on the following image:

Open data

UIEF data to support research and teaching include many publicly available products. These are generally those generated through federal grants and state or University initiatives and have limited processing. Other data may be embargoed temporarily due to research publication timelines or restricted due to data source, export control, human subjects or other ethical protections, or license terms. All permissions for spatial data use are handled through ArcGIS Online (AGOL) user accounts. Please visit the UI Experimental Forest Group in the University of Idaho AGOL portal. All faculty, staff and students with a UI email address can add themselves to this group. Available tabular data sets from UIEF research are published online through the UI Research Computing and Data Services (RCDS) Data Portal (formerly Northwest Knowledge Network).

In the table below, links to some popular geospatial data products and current weather station information used to support prescribed burning, logging, and spring planting on the forest are available.

FileLocation (link) Availability
1934 historical maps- Moscow MtnUIEF ArcGIS Online group Publicly available
2003 lidar .las filesUIEF ArcGIS Online groupPublicly available
2009 lidar .las filesUIEF ArcGIS Online groupPublicly available
2019 lidar .las filesUIEF ArcGIS Online groupPublicly available