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14 Feb 2023
Data description paper |
| 14 Feb 2023
A 250 m annual alpine grassland AGB dataset over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (2000–2019) in China based on in situ measurements, UAV photos, and MODIS data
Huifang Zhang
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang
West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Zhonggang Tang
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Binyao Wang
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Hongcheng Kan
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Yi Sun
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Yu Qin
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang
West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China
Baoping Meng
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Meng Li
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Jianjun Chen
College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of
Technology, 12 Jiangan Road, Guilin 541004, China
Yanyan Lv
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Jianguo Zhang
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
Shuli Niu
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling,
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Institute of Fragile Eco-environment, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, 999 Tongjing Road, Nantong, Jiangsu 226007, China
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We reconstructed land use and land cover (LULC) history for the conterminous United States during 1630–2020 by integrating multi-source data. The results show the widespread expansion of cropland and urban land and the shrinking of natural vegetation in the past four centuries. Forest planting and regeneration accelerated forest recovery since the 1920s. The datasets can be used to assess the LULC impacts on the ecosystem's carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles.
Johannes H. Uhl, Dominic Royé, Keith Burghardt, José Antonio Aldrey Vázquez, Manuel Borobio Sanchiz, and Stefan Leyk
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-53, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-53, 2023
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Historical, fine-grained geospatial datasets on built-up areas are rarely available, constraining studies of urbanization, settlement evolution, or the dynamics of human-environment interactions to recent decades. In order to provide such historical data, we used publicly available cadastral building data for Spain and created a series of gridded surfaces, measuring age, physical, and land use related features of the built environment in Spain, and the evolution of settlements from 1900 to 2020.
Huaqing Wu, Jing Zhang, Zhao Zhang, Jichong Han, Juan Cao, Liangliang Zhang, Yuchuan Luo, Qinghang Mei, Jialu Xu, and Fulu Tao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 791–808, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-791-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-791-2023, 2023
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High-spatiotemporal-resolution rice yield datasets are limited over a large region. We proposed an explicit method to predict rice yield based on machine learning methods and generated a seasonal 4 km resolution rice yield dataset across Asia (AsiaRiceYield4km) for 1995–2015. The seasonal rice yield accuracy of AsiaRiceYield4km is high and much improved compared with previous datasets. AsiaRiceYield4km will fill the current data gap and better support agricultural monitoring systems.
Adrià Descals, Serge Wich, Zoltan Szantoi, Matthew J. Struebig, Rona Dennis, Zoe Hatton, Thina Ariffin, Nabillah Unus, David L. A. Gaveau, and Erik Meijaard
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-463, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-463, 2023
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The spatial extent of coconut is understudied despite its increasing demand and associated impacts. We present the first global coconut layer at a high spatial resolution. The layer was produced using deep learning and remotely sensed data. The global coconut area is 12.31 x 106 ha for dense coconut, but the estimate is three times larger when sparse coconut is included. This means that more coconuts could probably be grown on land that has already been set aside for coconuts.
Steve Ahlswede, Christian Schulz, Christiano Gava, Patrick Helber, Benjamin Bischke, Michael Förster, Florencia Arias, Jörn Hees, Begüm Demir, and Birgit Kleinschmit
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 681–695, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-681-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-681-2023, 2023
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Imagery from air and space is the primary source of large-scale forest mapping. Our study introduces a new dataset with over 50000 image patches prepared for deep learning tasks. We show how the information for 20 European tree species can be extracted from different remote sensing sensors. Our algorithms can detect single species with precision scores up to 88 %. With a pixel size of 20×20 cm, forestry administration can now derive large-scale tree species maps at a very high resolution.
Qian Shi, Mengxi Liu, Andrea Marinoni, and Xiaoping Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 555–577, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-555-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-555-2023, 2023
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A large-scale and high-resolution urban green space (UGS) product with 1 m of 31 major cities in China (UGS-1m) is generated based on a deep learning framework to provide basic UGS information for relevant UGS research, such as distribution, area, and UGS rate. Moreover, an urban green space dataset (UGSet) with a total of 4454 samples of 512 × 512 in size are also supplied as the benchmark to support model training and algorithm comparison.
Raphaël d'Andrimont, Martin Claverie, Pieter Kempeneers, Davide Muraro, Momchil Yordanov, Devis Peressutti, Matej Batič, and François Waldner
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 317–329, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-317-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-317-2023, 2023
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AI4boundaries is an open AI-ready data set to map field boundaries with Sentinel-2 and aerial photography provided with harmonised labels covering seven countries and 2.5 M parcels in Europe.
Xiao Zhang, Liangyun Liu, Tingting Zhao, Xidong Chen, Shangrong Lin, Jinqing Wang, Jun Mi, and Wendi Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 265–293, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-265-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-265-2023, 2023
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An accurate global 30 m wetland dataset that can simultaneously cover inland and coastal zones is lacking. This study proposes a novel method for wetland mapping and generates the first global 30 m wetland map with a fine classification system (GWL_FCS30), including five inland wetland sub-categories (permanent water, swamp, marsh, flooded flat and saline) and three coastal wetland sub-categories (mangrove, salt marsh and tidal flats).
Yu Zhao, Shaoyu Han, Jie Zheng, Hanyu Xue, Zhenhai Li, Yang Meng, XuGang Li, Xiaodong Yang, Zhenhong Li, Shuhong Cai, and Guijun Yang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-417, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-417, 2023
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In the present study, we generated a 30m Chinese winter wheat yield from 2016 to 2021, called ChinaWheatYield30m. The dataset is with great accuracy in broad area. Also, it is the known highest resolution of yield dataset, such a dataset will provide basic knowledge of exquisite wheat yield distribution, which can be applied for many purposes including crop production modelling or regional climate evaluation.
Chong Liu, Xiaoqing Xu, Xuejie Feng, Xiao Cheng, Caixia Liu, and Huabing Huang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 133–153, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-133-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-133-2023, 2023
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Rapid Arctic changes are increasingly influencing human society, both locally and globally. Land cover offers a basis for characterizing the terrestrial world, yet spatially detailed information on Arctic land cover is lacking. We employ multi-source data to develop a new land cover map for the circumpolar Arctic. Our product reveals regionally contrasting biome distributions not fully documented in existing studies and thus enhances our understanding of the Arctic’s terrestrial system.
Jingliang Hu, Rong Liu, Danfeng Hong, Andrés Camero, Jing Yao, Mathias Schneider, Franz Kurz, Karl Segl, and Xiao Xiang Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 113–131, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-113-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-113-2023, 2023
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Multimodal data fusion is an intuitive strategy to break the limitation of individual data in Earth observation. Here, we present a multimodal data set, named MDAS, consisting of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), multispectral, hyperspectral, digital surface model (DSM), and geographic information system (GIS) data for the city of Augsburg, Germany, along with baseline models for resolution enhancement, spectral unmixing, and land cover classification, three typical remote sensing applications.
Furong Li, Marie-José Gaillard, Xianyong Cao, Ulrike Herzschuh, Shinya Sugita, Jian Ni, Yan Zhao, Chengbang An, Xiaozhong Huang, Yu Li, Hongyan Liu, Aizhi Sun, and Yifeng Yao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 95–112, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-95-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-95-2023, 2023
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The objective of this study is present the first gridded and temporally continuous quantitative plant-cover reconstruction for temperate and northern subtropical China over the last 12 millennia. The reconstructions are based on 94 pollen records and include estimates for 27 plant taxa, 10 plant functional types, and 3 land-cover types. The dataset is suitable for palaeoclimate modelling and the evaluation of simulated past vegetation cover and anthropogenic land-cover change from models.
Peter Hoffmann, Vanessa Reinhart, Diana Rechid, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, Edouard L. Davin, Christina Asmus, Benjamin Bechtel, Jürgen Böhner, Eleni Katragkou, and Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-431, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-431, 2022
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This paper introduces the new high-resolution land-use land-cover change dataset LUCAS LUC historical and future land use and land cover change dataset for Europe (Version 1.1), tailored for use in regional climate models. Historical and projected future land use change information from the Land-Use Harmonization 2 (LUH2) dataset is translated into annual plant functional type changes from 1950 to 2015 and 2016 to 2100, respectively, by employing a newly developed land use translator.
Jose Luis Gómez-Dans, Philip Edward Lewis, Feng Yin, Kofi Asare, Patrick Lamptey, Kenneth Kobina Yedu Aidoo, Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy, Hongyuan Ma, Qingling Wu, Martin Addi, Stephen Aboagye-Ntow, Caroline Edinam Doe, Rahaman Alhassan, Isaac Kankam-Boadu, Jianxi Huang, and Xuecao Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 5387–5410, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5387-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5387-2022, 2022
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We provide a data set to support mapping croplands in smallholder landscapes in Ghana. The data set contains information on crop location on three agroecological zones for 2 years, temporal series of measurements of leaf area index and leaf chlorophyll concentration for maize canopies and yield. We demonstrate the use of these data to validate cropland masks, create a maize mask using satellite data and explore the relationship between satellite measurements and yield.
Zhen Yu, Jing Liu, and Giri Kattel
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 5179–5194, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5179-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5179-2022, 2022
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We developed a 5 km annual nitrogen (N) fertilizer use dataset in China, covering the period from 1952 to 2018. We found that previous FAO-data-based N fertilizer products overestimated the N use in low, but underestimated in high, cropland coverage areas in China. The new dataset has improved the spatial distribution and corrected the existing biases, which is beneficial for biogeochemical cycle simulations in China, such as the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and food production.
Femke van Geffen, Birgit Heim, Frederic Brieger, Rongwei Geng, Iuliia A. Shevtsova, Luise Schulte, Simone M. Stuenzi, Nadine Bernhardt, Elena I. Troeva, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Evgenii S. Zakharov, Bringfried Pflug, Ulrike Herzschuh, and Stefan Kruse
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4967–4994, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4967-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4967-2022, 2022
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SiDroForest is an attempt to remedy data scarcity regarding vegetation data in the circumpolar region, whilst providing adjusted and labeled data for machine learning and upscaling practices. SiDroForest contains four datasets that include SfM point clouds, individually labeled trees, synthetic tree crowns and labeled Sentinel-2 patches that provide insights into the vegetation composition and forest structure of two important vegetation transition zones in Siberia, Russia.
Hanqin Tian, Zihao Bian, Hao Shi, Xiaoyu Qin, Naiqing Pan, Chaoqun Lu, Shufen Pan, Francesco N. Tubiello, Jinfeng Chang, Giulia Conchedda, Junguo Liu, Nathaniel Mueller, Kazuya Nishina, Rongting Xu, Jia Yang, Liangzhi You, and Bowen Zhang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4551–4568, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4551-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4551-2022, 2022
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Nitrogen is one of the critical nutrients for growth. Evaluating the change in nitrogen inputs due to human activity is necessary for nutrient management and pollution control. In this study, we generated a historical dataset of nitrogen input to land at the global scale. This dataset consists of nitrogen fertilizer, manure, and atmospheric deposition inputs to cropland, pasture, and rangeland at high resolution from 1860 to 2019.
Raphaël d'Andrimont, Momchil Yordanov, Laura Martinez-Sanchez, Peter Haub, Oliver Buck, Carsten Haub, Beatrice Eiselt, and Marijn van der Velde
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4463–4472, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4463-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4463-2022, 2022
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Between 2006 and 2018, 875 661 LUCAS cover (i.e. close-up) photos were taken over a systematic sample of the European Union. This geo-located photo dataset has been curated and is being made available along with the surveyed label data, including land cover and plant species.
Han Su, Bárbara Willaarts, Diana Luna-Gonzalez, Maarten S. Krol, and Rick J. Hogeboom
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4397–4418, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4397-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4397-2022, 2022
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There are over 608 million farms around the world but they are not the same. We developed high spatial resolution maps showing where small and large farms were located and which crops were planted for 56 countries. We checked the reliability and have the confidence to use them for the country level and global studies. Our maps will help more studies to easily measure how agriculture policies, water availability, and climate change affect small and large farms.
Zhen Qian, Min Chen, Yue Yang, Teng Zhong, Fan Zhang, Rui Zhu, Kai Zhang, Zhixin Zhang, Zhuo Sun, Peilong Ma, Guonian Lü, Yu Ye, and Jinyue Yan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4057–4076, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4057-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4057-2022, 2022
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Roadside noise barriers (RNBs) are important urban infrastructures to ensure a city is liveable. This study provides the first reliable and nationwide vectorized RNB dataset with street view imagery in China. The generated RNB dataset is evaluated in terms of two aspects, i.e., the detection accuracy and the completeness and positional accuracy. The method is based on a developed geospatial artificial intelligence framework.
Matthias Demuzere, Jonas Kittner, Alberto Martilli, Gerald Mills, Christian Moede, Iain D. Stewart, Jasper van Vliet, and Benjamin Bechtel
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 3835–3873, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022, 2022
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Because urban areas are key contributors to climate change but are also susceptible to multiple hazards, one needs spatially detailed information on urban landscapes to support environmental services. This global local climate zone map describes this much-needed intra-urban heterogeneity across the whole surface of the earth in a universal language and can serve as a basic infrastructure to study e.g. environmental hazards, energy demand, and climate adaptation and mitigation solutions.
Xin Huang, Jie Yang, Wenrui Wang, and Zhengrong Liu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 3649–3672, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3649-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3649-2022, 2022
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Using more than 2.7 million Sentinel images, we proposed a global ISA mapping method and produced the 10-m global ISA dataset (GISA-10m), with overall accuracy exceeding 86 %. The inter-comparison between different global ISA datasets showed the superiority of our results. The ISA distribution at urban and rural was discussed and compared. For the first time, courtesy of the high spatial resolution, the global road ISA was further identified, and its distribution was discussed.
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Short summary
The accuracy of regional grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is always limited by insufficient ground measurements and large spatial gaps with satellite pixels. This paper used more than 37 000 UAV images as bridges to successfully obtain AGB values matching MODIS pixels. The new AGB estimation model had good robustness, with an average R2 of 0.83 and RMSE of 34.13 g m2. Our new dataset provides important input parameters for understanding the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau during global climate change.
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