Cropland - GFSAD30

Parameter

Cropland - GFSAD30

3 classes

Cropland extent

Represented classes

Cropland

No-cropland

Ocean or inland waterbody

Description

This map shows cropland distribution across the world in a nominal 30-meter resolution derived primarily with Landsat imagery for the year 2015. The map uses machine learning algorithms on Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform. This is the baseline product of the GFSAD30 Project. There is a total of 1.874 billion hectares (roughly 12.6 percent of the global terrestrial area) of croplands in the world. View the global map or zoom-in further to see individual farms at https://www.croplands.org/app/map.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Source data

USGS GFSAD30 Global Food Security-Support Analysis Data at 30 m

Description

The GFSAD30 is a NASA funded project to provide high resolution global cropland data and their water use that contributes towards global food security in the twenty-first century. The GFSAD30 products are derived through multi-sensor remote sensing data (e.g., Landsat, MODIS, AVHRR), secondary data, and field-plot data and aims at documenting cropland dynamics from 1990 to 2017.

Spatial resolution

Global coverage

30m spatial resolution

Temporal resolution

Period of observation:

1990 to 2017