This India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001 - 2016 consists of annual winter cropped areas for most of India (except the Northeastern states) from 2000-2001 to 2015-2016. This data set utilizes NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI; spatial resolution: 250m) for the winter growing season (October-March). The methodology uses an automated algorithm identifying the EVI peak in each pixel for each year and linearly scales the EVI value between 0% and 100% cropped area within that particular pixel. Maps were then resampled to 1 km and were validated using high-resolution QuickBird, RapidEye, SkySat, and WorldView-2 images spanning 2008 to 2016 across 11 different agricultural regions of India. The spatial resolution of the data set is 1 km, resampled from 250m. The data are distributed as GeoTIFF and NetCDF files and are in WGS 84 projection.
Annually-available dataset in Geotiff or netCDF format with 1km spatial resolution in WGS84 projection. For more details please view the product documentation at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/docs/india/india-india-annua…
Jain, M., P. Mondal, G. L. Galford, G. Fiske, and R. S. DeFries. 2017. India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001-2016. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H47D2S3W. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR
Jain, M., P. Mondal, G. L. Galford, G. Fiske, and R. S. DeFries. 2017. An Automated Approach to Map Winter Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms across Large Scales Using MODIS Imagery. Remote Sensing 9 (6): 566.https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060566.
Priniciple Investigator: Ruth DeFries
Project Information
| PROJECT NAME | Principal Investigator | INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-sensor Fusion to Determine Climate Sensitivity of Agricultural Intensification in South Asia | Ruth DeFries | Columbia University |