CropLayer: a 2&thinsp;m resolution cropland map of China for 2020 from Mapbox and Google satellite imagery

Jiang, Hao; Ku, Mengjun; Zhou, Xia; Zheng, Qiong; Liu, Yangxiaoyue; Xu, Jianhui; Li, Dan; Wang, Chongyang; Wei, Jiayi; Zhang, Jing; Chen, Shuisen; Huang, Jianxi

doi:10.5194/essd-17-6703-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6703-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6703-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

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03 Dec 2025

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| 03 Dec 2025

CropLayer: a 2 m resolution cropland map of China for 2020 from Mapbox and Google satellite imagery

Hao Jiang, Mengjun Ku, Xia Zhou, Qiong Zheng, Yangxiaoyue Liu, Jianhui Xu, Dan Li, Chongyang Wang, Jiayi Wei, Jing Zhang, Shuisen Chen, and Jianxi Huang

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Jun 2025	90	21	2	113
Jul 2025	155	35	4	194
Aug 2025	295	45	4	344
Sep 2025	471	24	4	499
Oct 2025	146	45	7	198
Nov 2025	194	76	5	275
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Jan 2026	476	289	26	791
Feb 2026	182	131	7	320
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Short summary

Existing cropland datasets in China show significant discrepancies. We created a high-resolution cropland map of China for 2020, using imagery from Mapbox and Google. By combining image quality assessments, active learning for semantic segmentation, and results integration. The accuracy achieved to 88.73 %, with 30 out of 32 provincial units reporting area estimates within ±10 % of official statistics. In contrast, only 9 to 1 provinces from 7 existing datasets meet the same accuracy standard.