Published October 20, 2022 | Version 1.0.0
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GEOGLAM Best Available Crop Type Masks

Creators

  • 1. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, GEOGLAM Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
  • 3. Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group, Departamento de Geología, Geografia y Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Hémera Centro de Observación de la Tierra, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile

Description

Best Available Crop Specific  masks (BACS) over the major production and export countries for wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans, in the context of the G20 Global Agriculture Monitoring Program, GEOGLAM. The countries covered by GEOGLAM-BACS account for a total of 84% of soy, 54% of maize, 62% of wheat, and 92% of rice production globally.

Notes

The primary use of this dataset is for underpinning EO-based, global, crop-specific condition monitoring for four of the major crop commodities in the major production/exporting countries, through the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor activity. As noted in the prior section (Technical Validation: Known Issues & Required Improvements), there is room for improvement with respect to validation, extent, resolution, and seasonal specificity, and these limitations should be noted in the application of these data in different monitoring activities. Nevertheless, the data are already being operationally used within the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor Reports.

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