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Objective: Identify areas of negative relative change in annual grassland vegetation productivity.

Data: The indicator of biomass production departure is an estimate based on the percent area of a landscape with a negative relative change between a recent time period (most recent 5 years) and the historical record (beginning in 1984). There is a 1 year lag between the source data and the TCA Assessment year. For instance in 2024, mean annual productivity data used were 1984-2018 (historical record) and 2019-2023 (recent conditions). Note that in 2022, data only covers the western US, in all other years it covers CONUS.

Format: Raster data are binary: (1) negative or (0) not negative.

Resolution: 250m

Source: Annual RPMS Products from FuelCast. More info on the Rangeland Production Monitoring Service on the product page

Additional Resources:

Details on Method Changes and Source Data Versions

Overview of the Terrestrial Condition Assessment: TCA Hubsite or Landfire Office Hour Presentation

Explore the results of the most recent assessment: TCA Interactive Data Viewer

Learn more about the TCA KPI: TCA Dashboard

*if you have trouble viewing the Dashboard, please submit a Tableau Viewer Access Request

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