Alfalfa (Forage), Harvested Area (Hectares), 2000
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This raster dataset depicts the average number of hectares per land-area of a gridcell for alfalfa forage crops. Data quality categories include (0= missing, 0.25= county level census data, 0.5= interpolated with census data from within 2 degrees of latitude/longitude, 0.75= state level census data, 1= country level census data). Croplands cover ~15 million km2 of the planet and provide the bulk of the food and fiber essential to human well-being. Most global land cover datasets from satelites group croplands into just a few categories, thereby excluding information that is critical for answering key questions ranging from biodiversity conservation to food security to biogeochemical cycling. Information about agricultural land use practices like crop selection, yield, and fertilizer use is even more limited.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 5 minute by 5 minute (~10km x 10 km) latitude/longitude grid. Temporal resolution: Year 2000- based of average of census data between 1997-2003.
- Purpose
- EarthStat.org serves geographic data sets with the purpose of solving the grand challenge of feeding a growing global population while reducing agriculture’s impact on the environment. The data sets on EarthStat allow users to map the distribution of crops globally, analyze the impact of climate change on crop yields, understand the impacts of fertilizer and manure use and much more.
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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| Form | GeoTIFF |
| Place | St. Paul, MN, US |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota. Institute on the Environment |
| Publication date | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | University of Minnesota. Institute on the Environment |
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Subjects
| Subject | Alfalfa |
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| Subject | Harvesting |
| Subject | Earth (Planet) |
| Subject | 2000 |
| Subject | Imagery and Base Maps |
| Subject | Farming |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
| WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vh219bj2941 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Data may be freely downloaded for research, study, or teaching, but must be cited appropriately. Incorporation of the data into a commercial product, is allowed only with explicit permission. If you would like to request permission to use EarthStat data for another purpose, please contact us at earthstat.data@gmail.com.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Monfreda, C., N. Ramankutty, and J.A. Foley (2008), Farming the planet 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000, Global Biogrochem. Cycles, 22, GB1022, doi: 10.1029/2007/GB002947.
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