Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP)
type: Dataset
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description: RCMAP provides annual rangeland vegetation component fractional cover and related products across western North America derived from Landsat imagery. Components include bare ground, herbaceous, litter, shrub, sagebrush, tree (and related component/trend products), supporting rangeland monitoring and assessment from 1985 to present.
creator: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
publisher: Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium
keywords: RCMAP
keywords: rangeland
keywords: fractional cover
keywords: sagebrush
keywords: shrub
keywords: bare ground
keywords: Landsat
keywords: remote sensing
variable measured: Bare ground cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Herbaceous cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Litter cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Shrub cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Sagebrush cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
variable measured: Tree cover (percent)
  type: PropertyValue
  temporal coverage: 1985-01-01/2024-12-31
  spatial coverage: Western North America (rangelands)
    type: Place
    geo: GeoShape
      box: -130,25 -95,60
  temporal resolution: not detected
  spatial resolution: QuantitativeValue
    value: 30
    unit text: m
measurement technique: Landsat remote sensing
measurement technique: Fractional cover modeling and time-series analysis for rangeland components
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
distribution: RCMAP downloads (MRLC data pages)
  type: DataDownload
  description: Landing page for RCMAP products, including time-series cover, trends, and ecological potential.
distribution: Example component download: Bare Ground (2011–2024 ZIP)
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/zip
  description: Example direct ZIP download link for an RCMAP component time-series.
distribution: Example component download: Herbaceous (2011–2024 ZIP)
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/zip
  description: Example direct ZIP download link for an RCMAP component time-series.
distribution: RCMAP FGDC metadata (XML)
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/xml
  description: FGDC metadata for RCMAP products.
distribution: MRLC Rangeland Viewer
  type: DataDownload
  description: Interactive visualization, comparison, and subsetting/downloading for RCMAP data.
encoding format: image/tiff
encoding format: application=geotiff
encoding format: application/zip
encoding format: application/xml
is part of: catalog
about: Rangeland monitoring
about: Vegetation cover
about: Remote sensing
citation: Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP)
  type: CreativeWork
  date published: 2022
  publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

PropertyValue
property ID: doi
value: 10.3133/fs20223036