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)植被覆盖状况（Vegetation cover condition）是量化评估扰动（含管理活动）对地表覆盖造成影响程度的指标。该状况采用Compere相对绩效基准框架进行评估，此框架将某一地点的植被覆盖状况值，与给定区域内所有生物物理属性等效的地点的对应值进行对比。最终得到的状况评估值区间为0至1，其中0代表等效地点中观测到的最低地表覆盖度，1代表最高地表覆盖度。基础总植被覆盖数据指绿色植被与枯败植物残体共同覆盖的地表总占比。植被覆盖状况于2001年至2018年间以500米的网格分辨率逐年开展评估。本工作由澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）作为澳大利亚政府地质与生物区域评估计划（https://www.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/gba）的组成部分完成。本数据集集合包含产出的植被覆盖状况栅格数据、此前未公开的新型输入数据集，以及用于开展分析并生成相关学术论文配图的计算机代码；该论文于2021年6月提交至《Ecosphere》期刊，作者为Donohue, R.J.、Mokany, K.、McVicar, T.R.与O'Grady, A.P.，论文标题为《Identifying management-driven dynamics in vegetation cover: applying the Compere framework to Cooper Creek, Australia》