ESA WorldCereal 10 m 2021 v100

<p><strong>ESA WorldCereal 2021 products v100</strong></p> <p>The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCereal 10m 2021 product suite consist of global-scale&nbsp;annual and seasonal crop maps&nbsp;and (where applicable) their related confidence. Every file in this repository&nbsp;contains&nbsp;up to 106 agro-ecological zone&nbsp;(AEZ) products&nbsp;which were all processed with respect to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2022.2079273">their own regional&nbsp;seasonality</a>&nbsp;and should be considered as independent products.</p> <p>Naming convention of the ZIP files is as follows:</p> <p><strong>WorldCereal_{year}_{season}_{product}_{classification|confidence}.zip</strong></p> <p>The actual AEZ-based GeoTIFF files inside each ZIP are named according to following convention:</p> <p><strong>{AEZ_id}_{season}_{product}_{startdate}_{enddate}_{classification|confidence}.tif</strong></p> <p>The seasons are defined in Table 1.&nbsp;Note that <strong>cereals</strong>&nbsp;as described by WorldCereal include wheat, barley and rye, which belong to the <em>Triticeae</em> tribe. Next to the actual WorldCereal products, this repository contains the files "<strong>WorldCereal_AEZ.geojson</strong>" that contains the AEZ description and outline, as well as "<strong>QGIS_stylefiles.zip</strong>"<strong>&nbsp;</strong>which contains QGIS style files (.qml) for product visualization purposes.</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th>Season</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </tbody> <tbody> <tr> <td>tc-annual</td> <td>A one-year cycle being defined in a region by the end of the last considered growing season</td> </tr> <tr> <td>tc-wintercereals</td> <td>The main cereals season defined in a region</td> </tr> <tr> <td>tc-springcereals</td> <td>Optional springcereals season, only defined in certain AEZ</td> </tr> <tr> <td>tc-maize-main</td> <td>The main maize season defined in a region</td> </tr> <tr> <td>tc-maize-second</td> <td>Optional second maize season, only defined in certain AEZ.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Note</strong>:&nbsp;AEZs for which no irrigation product is available&nbsp;were not processed because of the unavailability&nbsp;of thermal Landsat data.</p> <p>A scientific paper describing the WorldCereal products and the methodology behind them is available through the link below:</p> <p><a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/5491/2023/essd-15-5491-2023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Van Tricht, K., Degerickx, J., Gilliams, S., Zanaga, D., Battude, M., Grosu, A., Brombacher, J., Lesiv, M., Bayas, J. C. L., Karanam, S., Fritz, S., Becker-Reshef, I., Franch, B., Moll&agrave;-Bononad, B., Boogaard, H., Pratihast, A. K., Koetz, B., and Szantoi, Z.: WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation mapping, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 5491&ndash;5515, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5491-2023, 2023.</a></p> <p><em>This work was supported by the European Space Agency under contract N&deg;4000130569/20/I-NB.</em></p>