RCMAP - 30m - Yearly¶
Description¶
The Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) product suite includes eight fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, and shrub, rule-based error maps, and the temporal trends of each component. Data characterize the percentage of each 30-meter pixel in the Western United States covered by each component for each year from 1985-2021 - providing change information for 35 years (imagery for 2012 was unavailable).
Climate Engine details¶
- Dataset type
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Engine ID
- RCMAP
- Documentation
- https://support.climateengine.org/article/114-rcmap
Dataset details¶
- Scale
- 30m
- Frequency
- Yearly
- Coverage
- Western US
- Start year
- 1985
- End year
- Present
Earth Engine collection details¶
- Earth Engine asset
- projects/sat-io/open-datasets/USGS/RCMAP/V7/TIME_SERIES/COVER
- Earth Engine asset URL
- https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/rcmap/?h=rcm
- Earth Engine source catalog
- Awesome GEE Community Catalog
Variables¶
API variable docs: #rcmap-rangeland-component-timeseries
| Name | Units |
|---|---|
| Annual Herbaceous Cover | % |
| Bare Ground Cover | % |
| Herbaceous Cover | % |
| Litter Cover | % |
| Non-sagebrush Shrub Cover | % |
| Perennial Herbaceous Cover | % |
| Sagebrush Cover | % |
| Shrub Cover | % |
| Shrub Height | cm |
| Tree Cover | % |
References¶
- Rigge, M.B., Bunde, B., and Postma, K., 2025, Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2024. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13QF8HT
Website: https://www.mrlc.gov/data/type/rcmap-time-series-trends
Terms of use¶
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