The Global Croplands Map

The USGS has released an interactive map which shows all the nation used for crops as well as all the possible cropland inwards the world. As the world's population continues to grow the USGS believes that monitoring global croplands as well as their H2O piece of job is essential to ensure time to come nutrient security.

The Global Croplands map provides xxx meter resolution cropland information for the entire world. The information comes from analyzing Landsat satellite information using the Google footing Engine cloud computing platform. Europe, India, the USA, Communist People's Republic of China as well as Russian Federation convey the highest cropland areas as well as combined convey most one-half of the world's cropland.

The 30-m global cropland information used inwards the Global Cropland map is currently inwards the peer-review stage. Once this peer review procedure is over the information volition travel released as well as available to download.