NCGS Intactness

Pre-release. This site describes standard version 0.7.0-dev, which is in development and may change before version 1.0.0.

The qualifier on land cover. The safeguard applies to intact indigenous cover, not to any grass.

Degraded

The cover is recognisable but its composition or function is impaired.

Intact

The cover retains its natural composition and function.

Transformed

The natural cover has been replaced by another land use.

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes glossary/site-schemes.ttl at standard version 0.7.0-dev.