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Terrestrial Condition Assessment (TCA) Vegetation Departure (Map Service)

Metadata Updated: February 12, 2026

Departure is calculated as: Departure = 100 ? Similaritywhere Similarity = a??? (min(Ai,Bi)) over all classes i,...nThe vegetation departure value represents the weighted average (areal extent) of the departure from each Landfire Biophysical Settings (BpS) within each landscape ecosystem. [citation] Swaty, R.; Blankenship, K.; Hall, K.R.; Smith, J.; Dettenmaier, M.; Hagen, S. Assessing Ecosystem Condition: Use and Customization of the Vegetation Departure Metric. Land 2022, 11, 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010028.Vegetation departure within a TCA landscape ecosystem describes the degree to which the observed proportion (percent, 0-100%) of successional classes (i.e. A through E) derived from Landfire Succession Classes (SClass) 2.2.0 dataset, is departed from the proportions one would expect of the reference condition contained in the Landfire Biophysical Settings (BpS) 2.2.0 dataset at each cell location.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date May 31, 2024
Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date May 31, 2024
Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2026
Publisher U.S. Forest Service
Maintainer
Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=cb99bbc832a34b5ea8e3a5f22f588dda
Data First Published 2024-05-02
Data Last Modified 2024-05-07
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:96
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 154485b9-26d8-458e-b52d-89cbdc3a570e
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::terrestrial-condition-assessment-tca-vegetation-departure-map-service
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial ""
Program Code 005:059
Progresscode onGoing
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5850eac38b65114a4e0a2059cf75e8c9af8a50f2004704949aa61dc07cfce116
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial ""

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