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A 30-meter terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine

  • 1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2. Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilian University
  • 3. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, UMR8212
  • 4. College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University
  • 5. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Description

This dataset contains the China terrace map at 1 km resolution in 2018 (calculated from 30 m resolution map). The map values indicate the proportion of terrace within 1×1 km grid cell.

The 30 m China terrace map can be downloaded at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5541065 and can be viewed at https://cbw.users.earthengine.app/view/chinaterracemap

Citations:

When using this dataset, please cite both the dataset and the following data description article:

Cao, B., Yu, L., Naipal, V., Ciais, P., Li, W., Zhao, Y., Wei, W., Chen, D., Liu, Z., and Gong, P.: A 30 m terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2437–2456, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2437-2021, 2021.

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