Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Cropland Extent data from the GFSAD30SEACE product over Thailand, 2015.
View full-size imageThe NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) data product provides cropland extent data over Southeast and Northeast Asia for nominal year 2015 at 30 meter resolution (GFSAD30SEACE). The monitoring of global cropland extent is critical for policymaking and provides important baseline data that are used in many agricultural cropland studies pertaining to water sustainability and food security. The GFSAD30SEACE data product uses the pixel-based supervised classifiers, Random Forest (RF), to retrieve cropland extent from a combination of Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), and elevation derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Version 3 data products. Each GFSAD30SEACE GeoTIFF file contains a cropland extent layer that defines areas of cropland, non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area.
| Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
| Collection | MEaSUREs GFSAD |
| DOI | 10.5067/MEaSUREs/GFSAD/GFSAD30SEACE.001 |
| File Size | ~11.47 MB |
| Temporal Resolution | Multi-Year |
| Temporal Extent | 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31 |
| Spatial Extent | Southeast and Northeast Asia |
| Coordinate System | Geographic Latitude and Longitude |
| Datum | World Geodetic System (WGS84) |
| File Format | GeoTIFF |
| Geographic Dimensions | 10° x 10° |
| Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
| Number of Science Dataset (SDS) Layers | 1 |
| Columns/Rows | 37114 x 37253 |
| Pixel Size | 30 m |
| SDS Name | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | No Data Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band 1 | Cropland Extent for Southeast and Northeast Asia defined with three classes | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 0 to 2 | N/A |
| Class Label | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Water | Water bodies |
| 1 | Non-Cropland | Non-Cropland areas |
| 2 | Cropland | Cropland areas |
Filename convention: GFSAD30SEACE_2015_GridTile_001_ProcessingDate(YYYYJJJHHMMSS).tif
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Certain small islands in the Pacific are not classified and therefore data for these areas are not provided.
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