- Metric Name:  Herbaceous Cover

- Data Vintage:  2021

- Unit Of Measure: Fractional non-overlapping absolute cover; continuous variable from 0 to 1.

Total herbaceous cover as measured by the fFractional non-overlapping absolute herbaceous cover, viewed vertically. Provides a first order measure of vegetation type when combined with parallel observations of tree and herbaceous cover. Data from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) are used for training, and NLCD definitions for cover (for example, the distinction between tree vs shrub) are expected to be similar in the CECS data sets.

Creation Method: Machine learning (Random Forest) using the National Land Cover Database for training and Landsat observations as predictors. See https://doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000654 for further information.

- Credits:  CECS; https://california-ecosystem-climate.solutions/

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