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WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation mapping
Kristof Van Tricht
Jeroen Degerickx
Sven Gilliams
Daniele Zanaga
Marjorie Battude
Alex Grosu
Joost Brombacher
Myroslava Lesiv
Juan Carlos Laso Bayas
Santosh Karanam
Steffen Fritz
Inbal Becker-Reshef
Belén Franch
Bertran Mollà-Bononad
Hendrik Boogaard
Arun Kumar Pratihast
Zoltan Szantoi
Abstract. The challenge of global food security in the face of population growth, conflict and climate change requires a comprehensive understanding of cropped areas, irrigation practices and the distribution of major commodity crops like maize and wheat. However, such understanding should preferably be updated at seasonal intervals for each agricultural system rather than relying on a single annual assessment. Here we present the European Space Agency funded WorldCereal system, a global, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation mapping system that addresses existing limitations in current global-scale crop and irrigation mapping. WorldCereal generates a range of global products, including temporary crop extent, seasonal maize and cereals maps, seasonal irrigation maps, seasonal active cropland maps, and confidence layers providing insights into expected product quality. The WorldCereal product suite for the year 2021 presented here serves as a global demonstration of the dynamic open-source WorldCereal system. The presented products are fully validated, e.g., global user's and producer's accuracies for the annual temporary crop product are 88.5 % and 92.1 %, respectively. The WorldCereal system provides a vital tool for policymakers, international organizations, and researchers to better understand global crop and irrigation patterns and inform decision-making related to food security and sustainable agriculture. Our findings highlight the need for continued community efforts such as additional reference data collection to support further development and push the boundaries for global agricultural mapping from space. The global products are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7875104 (Van Tricht et al., 2023).
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Data sets
ESA WorldCereal 10 m 2021 v100 Kristof Van Tricht, Jeroen Degerickx, Sven Gilliams, Daniele Zanaga, Mickaël Savinaud, Marjorie Battude, Romain Buguet de Chargère, Guillaume Dubreule, Alex Grosu, Joost Brombacher, Henk Pelgrum, Myroslava Lesiv, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Santosh Karanam, Steffen Fritz, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Belén Franch, Bertran Mollà Bononad, Juanma Cintas, Hendrik Boogaard, Arun Kumar Pratihast, Lubos Kucera, and Zoltan Szantoi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7875104
Model code and software
WorldCereal/worldcereal-classification: WorldCereal classification module v1.1.1 Kristof Van Tricht and Jeroen Degerickx https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7863779
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