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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

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    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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