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Agricultural land use 2021 (raster)
Resource ID
12007834-e1fa-4eba-b1f8-e2c55338dd8a
Title
Agricultural land use 2021 (raster)
Date
May 4, 2023, 7 a.m., Publication
Abstract
The dataset contains maps of the main classes of agricultural land use (dominant crop types and other land use types) in Germany, which have been produced annually at the Thünen Institute since 2017 on the basis of satellite data. The maps cover the entire open landscape, i.e. the agriculturally used area (UAA) and e.g. uncultivated areas. The map was derived from dense time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat 8 and additional environmental data. Map production is based on the methods described in Blickensdörfer et al. (2022). The map extent covers all areas in Germany that are defined as agricultural land, small woody features, heathland or peatland according to ATKIS Basis-DLM 2020 (Geobasisdaten: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG (2020)). Post-processing of the maps included a sieve filter as well as a ruleset for the reduction of non-plausible areas using the Basis-DLM. The final post-processing step comprises the aggregation of the gridded data to homogeneous objects (fields) based on the approach that is described in Tetteh et al. (2021). Data are available on request either in gridded (raster) format or in aggregated (vector) format. For metadata details please see the specifications below.
Edition
Version 2.01
Responsible
erasmi
Point of Contact
Schwieder
marcel.schwieder@thuenen.de
Purpose
The data provide the basis for the Thünen Earth Observation Atlas.
Maintenance Frequency
annually
Type
grid
Restrictions
otherRestrictions
Data are available on request from Marcel Schwieder.
License
Not Specified
Language
eng
Temporal Extent
Start
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End
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Supplemental Information
Creation of raster maps: Blickensdörfer L, Schwieder M, Pflugmacher D, Nendel C, Erasmi S, Hostert P (2022) Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT 269:112831.  doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112831
Data Quality
PA = Producer’s accuracy; UA = User’s accuracy; FS = F-score; OA = Overall accuracy 
Extent
  • x0: 4016026.3630416505
  • x1: 4676026.3630416505
  • y0: 2654919.6079648044
  • y1: 3554919.6079648044
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:3035
Keywords
no keywords
Category
Farming
Regions
Germany