Digital Earth Africa Cropland Extent Map (2019)

Description

Digital Earth Africa's cropland extent map (2019) shows the estimated location of croplands in Africa for the period January to December 2019. Cropland is defined as: "a piece of land of minimum 0.01 ha (a single 10m x 10m pixel) that is sowed/planted and harvest-able at least once within the 12 months after the sowing/planting date." This definition will exclude non-planted grazing lands and perennial crops which can be difficult for satellite imagery to differentiate from natural vegetation. This provisional cropland extent map has a resolution of 10m, and was built using Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images from 2019. The cropland extent map was produced using extensive training data from regions across Africa, coupled with a Random Forest machine learning model. The continental service contains maps built separately for eight Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs). For a detailed exploration of the methods used to produce the cropland extent map, read the Jupyter Notebooks in DE Africa’s crop-mask GitHub repository.

Update Frequency

To be defined.

License

DE Africa makes this data available under the Creative Commons Attribute 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Documentation

https://docs.digitalearthafrica.org/en/latest/data_specs/Cropland_extent_specs.html

Managed By

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Contact

helpdesk@digitalearthafrica.org

How to Cite

Digital Earth Africa Cropland Extent Map (2019) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-crop-extent.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Digital Earth Africa Training by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  

Tools & Applications

• Digital Earth Africa Explorer (Cropland Extent Map) by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Africa Geoportal by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Africa Map by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Africa Notebook Repo by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Africa Sandbox by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Africa web services by Digital Earth Africa Contributors
  

Publications

• Co-Production of a 10-m Cropland Extent Map for Continental Africa using Sentinel-2, Cloud Computing, and the Open-Data-Cube by Chad Burton, Fang Yuan, Chong Ee-Faye, Meghan Halabisky, David Ongo, Fatou Mar, Victor Addabor, Bako Mamane and Sena Adimou
  
• Cropland Extent is now available for the entire African continent by Digital Earth Africa Contributors