EarthStat - GIS data for agriculture and the environment
Description: EarthStat - GIS data for agriculture and the environment
Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet’s land surface. To understand the extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we create a global data set of croplands and pastures circa 2000 by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite-derived land cover data.
Here we present land use data sets created by combining national, state, and county level census statistics with a recently updated global data set of croplands on a five-arc-minute by five-arc-minute (~10 km by 10 km) latitude/longitude grid. The resulting land use data sets depict circa the year 2000 the area (harvested) and yield of 175 distinct crops of the world.
Here, we develop global crop-specific circa 2000 estimates of GHG emissions and GHG intensity in high spatial detail, reporting the effects of rice paddy management, peatland draining, and nitrogen (N) fertilizer on CH 4 , CO 2 , and N 2 O emissions.
EarthStat - GIS data for agriculture and the environment