AHAD: African Major Crops Harvested Area Dataset for the years of 2000, 2010, and 2020

The African Harvested Area Dataset (AHAD), which covers 22 major crops across the continent at a resolution of 5 arcmin for the years 2000, 2010, and 2020. The dataset is built upon 8 well-used global harvested area datasets, through verifying, merging, calibrating, and confining with available information, including point-specific crop distribution, accurate cropland map data, subnational statistics, and cropping intensity data. The datasets stored in GeoTIFF format within the AHAD folder, with each file named according to the format "AHAD_<year>_<crop>.tif". Each file contains a 5 arcmin gridded map detailing the harvested area in hectares (ha) for one of the 22 African crops during a specific year, and is uniformly georeferenced to the WGS84 geographic coordinate system.