Global Cropland Extent

Global Cropland Extent


Cropland Probability


Cropland/ Non-Cropland



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250m MODIS Global Crop Extent discrete cropland/not-cropland data

Discrete cropland classification based upon thresholding cropland probability product per-country to match USDA FAS PSD database production cropland area for 2000-2008.

A value of 1 means cropland, 0 means not cropland. A value of 254 means water. Tile data is in GeoTIFF format. Each tile is 4800x4800 in MODIS Sinusoidal projection with a pixel size of 231.65635m. A map of MODIS tiles can be found here.

These data may be used for valid scientific or educational purposes as long as proper citations are used. We ask that you credit the Global Cropland Extent data as follows:

Pittman, K., Hansen, M.C., Becker-Reshef, I., Potapov, P.V., Justice, C.O. (2010) Estimating Global Cropland Extent with Multi-year MODIS Data. Remote Sensing, in press.

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Matthew Hansen
Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence - SDSU
Phone: (605) 688-6848
Matthew.Hansen@sdstate.edu

Kyle Pittman
Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence - SDSU
Phone: (605) 688-6591
Kyle.Pittman@sdstate.edu

Last Updated: 3/11/2010