Vegetation cover condition (Cooper region)

Vegetation cover condition is an assessment of how much impact disturbances (including management activities) have had on ground cover. Condition is assessed using Compere, a relative performance bench marking framework that compares one location's value to the values of all biophysically equivalent locations in a given region. Resulting condition estimates range from 0 (lowest observed cover among equivalents) to 1 (highest observed). Underlying total vegetation cover data are the total fraction of ground covered by green and senesced plant material. Cover condition has been assessed yearly from 2001 to 2018 at a grid resolution of 500 m. This work was conducted by the CSIRO as part of the Australian Government's Geological and Bioregional Assessments program (https://www.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/gba). This collection includes the output vegetation cover condition grids, the novel input datasets not elsewhere available and the computer code used to perform the analyses and to generate the figures contained in the associated journal article currently (June 2021) submitted to Ecosphere (Donohue, R.J., Mokany, K., McVicar, T.R. and O'Grady, A.P. Identifying management-driven dynamics in vegetation cover: applying the Compere framework to Cooper Creek, Australia)