Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4833-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4833-2026
Data description article
 | 
13 Jul 2026
Data description article |  | 13 Jul 2026

Long-term irrigation water use datasets from multiple Earth Observation-based methods in major irrigated regions

Pierre Laluet, Jacopo Dari, Louise Busschaert, Zdenko Heyvaert, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Pia Langhans, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, Carla Saltalippi, Renato Morbidelli, Clément Albergel, and Wouter Dorigo

Data sets

Regional datasets of long-term and coarse resolution irrigation estimates from space Pierre Laluet et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14988197

Download
Short summary
We developed a long-term dataset collection of irrigation water use based on about two decades of satellite observations, three distinct approaches, and many input datasets. The collection provides monthly estimates for major agricultural regions and helps describe how irrigation varies across locations, seasons, and years. It offers a foundation for improving how irrigation is quantified, compared across methods, and integrated into large-scale hydrological and climate studies.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint