A Unified Cropland Layer at 250 m for Global Agriculture Monitoring

Waldner, F., Fritz, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-8549, Di Gregorio, A., Plotnikov, D., Bartalev, S., Kussul, N., Gong, P., Thenkabail, P., et al. (2016). A Unified Cropland Layer at 250 m for Global Agriculture Monitoring. Data 1 (1) e3. 10.3390/data1010003.

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Project: Stimulating Innovation for Global Monitoring of Agriculture and its Impact on the Environment in support of GEOGLAM (SIGMA, FP7 603719)

Abstract

Accurate and timely information on the global cropland extent is critical for food security monitoring, water management and earth system modeling. Principally, it allows for analyzing satellite image time-series to assess the crop conditions and permits isolation of the agricultural component to focus on food security and impacts of various climatic scenarios. However, despite its critical importance, accurate information on the spatial extent, cropland mapping with remote sensing imagery remains a major challenge. Following an exhaustive identification and collection of existing land cover maps, a multi-criteria analysis was designed at the country level to evaluate the fitness of a cropland map with regards to four dimensions: its timeliness, its legend, its resolution adequacy and its confidence level. As a result, a Unified Cropland Layer that combines the fittest products into a 250 m global cropland map was assembled. With an evaluated accuracy ranging from 82% to 95%, the Unified Cropland Layer successfully improved the accuracy compared to single global products.Data Set: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2066742 or http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: global; agriculture; cropland map; multi-criteria analysis; accuracy assessment
Research Programs: Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)
Depositing User: Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2016 10:15
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 05:00
URI: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/12950

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