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High-resolution crop maps over large spatial extents are fundamental to many agricultural applications; however, generating high-quality crop maps consistently across space and time remains a challenge. In this project, we improved a workflow for crop mapping and developed the first openly available, annual, 10-m spatial resolution maize and soybean maps over the Contiguous United States (CONUS) from 2019 to 2022. Validated using field data from the two-stage cluster sample, our annual maps achieved consistent overall accuracies (OA) greater than 95% with standard errors of less than 1%. User’s accuracies (UAs) and producer’s accuracies (PAs) for maize were higher than 91% and 84% across the years, and UAs and PAs for soybean were greater than 88% and 82%, respectively. To illustrate the substantial improvement of the 10-m map over existing datasets, e.g., the 30-m Cropland Data Layer (CDL), we aggregated the 10-m maps to 30-m spatial resolution and quantified the amount of 30-m mixed pixels that can be reduced at field, regional, and national levels. Overall, the median percentages of mixed maize and soybean pixel reduction across all counties were 14% and 16%, respectively. With more Sentinel-2-like data available from continuous observations and incoming satellite missions, we anticipate that 10-m crop maps will greatly benefit long-term monitoring for agricultural practices from the field to global scales.
 

Dataset Reference

Li, H., Song, X.-P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Lima, A., Poulson, A., Baggett, A., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Zalles, V., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S. M., Pickens, A. H., Ortiz-Dominguez, C., Li, X., Kerr, T., Song, Z., Turubanova, S., Bongwele, E., Kondjo, H. K., Komarova, A., Stehman, S. V., and Hansen, M. C. (2025, preprint, in review) An Accurate 10 m Annual Crop Map Product of Maize and Soybean Across the United States, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-361

The maps can be visualized and analyzed in Google Earth Engine