Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1781-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1781-2025
Data description paper
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06 May 2025
Data description paper |  | 06 May 2025

The 20 m Africa rice distribution map of 2023

Jingling Jiang, Hong Zhang, Ji Ge, Lijun Zuo, Lu Xu, Mingyang Song, Yinhaibin Ding, Yazhe Xie, and Wenjiang Huang

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This study uses temporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and optical imagery to conduct rice-mapping experiments in 34 African countries with rice-planting areas exceeding 5000 ha in 2022, achieving a 20 m resolution spatial distribution mapping for 2023. The average classification accuracy based on the validation set exceeded 85 %, and the R2; values for linear fitting with existing statistical data all surpassed 0.9, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed mapping method.
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