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.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: ISO-19139 metadata ArcGIS Hub Dataset ArcGIS GeoService For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

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.