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Land-cover mapping of the central Arizona region based on 2015 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery
Detailed land-cover mapping is essential for a range of research issues addressed by sustainability science, especially for questions posed of urban areas, such as those of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program. This project provides a 1-meter land-cover mapping of the CAP LTER study area (greater Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding Sonoran desert). The mapping is generated primarily using 2015 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) four-band data, with auxiliary GIS data used to improve accuracy. Auxiliary data include the 2015 cadastral parcel data, the 2014 USGS LiDAR data (1-meter), the 2014 Microsoft/OpenStreetMap Building Footprint data, the 2015 Street TIGER/Line, and a previous (2010) NAIP-based land-cover map of the study area (https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=623). Among auxiliary data, building footprints and LiDAR data significantly improved the boundary detection of above-ground objects. Post-classification, manual editing was applied to minimize classification errors. As a result, the land-cover map achieves an overall accuracy of 94 per cent. The map contains eight land cover classes, including: (1) building, (2) asphalt, (3) bare soil and concrete, (4) tree and shrub, (5) grass, (6) water, (7) active cropland, and (8) fallow. When compared to the aforementioned, previous (2010) NAIP-based land-cover map for the study area, buildings and tree canopies are classified more accurately in this 2015 land-cover map.
Sustainable Agricultural Pathways in Europe (SIPATH) – land use data
<p>The published land use data were part of the project “What is Sustainable Intensification? Operationalizing Sustainable Agricultural Pathways in Europe (SIPATH)”, which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. CRSII5_183493). The overall objective of this project was to assess short-term trajectories in agriculture land use and landscape structure over a period of 20 years for 16 individual study sites located in 11 countries, ranging from the Mediterranean to the boreal zone. The following datasets illustrate land use data that were generated for the different study sites at two points in time between 2000 and 2020, depending on data availability. The data collection process encompassed land use mapping through visual image interpretation of orthorectified aerial photographs using geographic information systems (ESRI ArcGIS Pro). Land use digitalization was conducted by two scientists in Switzerland, who were in contact with the respective project partners in the study countries to exchange expert knowledge. Minimal mapping unit was 25m<sup>2</sup> for areal elements. Land cover was classified following the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat classification (EEA 2019). The broadest habitat classes were systematically mapped in the study sites, with each covering an area of approximately 25 km². While EUNIS focuses on habitat types, the study, however, targeted the intensity of agricultural land-use, several EUNIS classes were complemented with levels of land-use intensities. This was applied for grassland, olive groves and fruit orchards. The spatial resolution of the orthophotos ranged from 25cm to 2m. Accordingly, there were situations in which the spatial resolution was insufficient to accurately determine the land use. In such cases, either orthophotos from about the same year were consulted, possibly showing different phenological stages, or land use statistics and expert judgement based on local expert knowledge of the respective study area were applied.</p> <p> </p> <p>Reference:</p> <p>EEA, 2019. EUNIS habitat classification 2007 (Revised descriptions 2012) amended 2019. Copenhagen (<a href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/ds_resolveuid/27788ca43d9e4f2e9477b15df88d20be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Permalink</a>)</p>
Transparency in agricultural land lease by local government
<p>In this research, the focus was on analysing transparency aspect of government and public administration, i.e. how transparent tenders for the allocation and disposition of state-owned agricultural land are conducted. The main objective of this work was to investigate and critically examine the practices of publishing tenders for the lease of state agricultural land in the local units of six selected counties in the Republic of Croatia.</p>
Lots for greening: Identification of metropolitan vacant land and its potential use for cooling and agriculture in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
This project provides the first systematic assessment of non-governmental vacant parcels for potential greening (VPPG) the Phoenix metropolitan area—land parcels that are or can be privately owned but which contain no buildings, are unpaved, have no apparent use, and are potential candidates for urban greening. To achieve the data, a new method for the identification of vacant lands was employed that combines remote sensing techniques and cadastral data and trains the computer to distinguish different forms of vacant land. The classification result proved to be an effective approach for open land identification and identified approximately 19500 ha of open land in the metro area. The model achieved an average accuracy of 90.67%. This dataset only includes VPPG and does not include other vacant land determined to be inappropriate for potential greening (developed/abandoned or impervious surface). (Overall accuracy for all classes was 87.20%).
Agricultural land use and livestock composition by case study of the SURE-Farm project - Input data for a dynamic nitrogen flow model
<p>Dataset used as input to the model by Pinsard et al (2021) and results published in D5.5 of the SURE-Farm project.</p>
Land use and land cover samples for specific regions of interest in the Brazilian Cerrado agricultural belt
<p>Land use and land cover samples for specific regions of interest in the Brazilian Cerrado agricultural belt in 2019/2020. Total of samples: 957. The process to collect them is described in Chaves, M., & Sanches, I. (2023). Improving crop mapping in Brazil's Cerrado from a data cubes-derived Sentinel-2 temporal analysis. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 32, 101014. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352938523000964">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352938523000964</a> and Chaves, M., Soares, A., Mataveli, G., Sánchez, A., & Sanches, I. (2023). A semi-automated workflow for LULC mapping via Sentinel-2 data cubes and spectral indices. Automation, 4(1), 94-109. <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4052/4/1/7">https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4052/4/1/7</a>.</p>
Global agricultural ammonia emissions simulated with the ORCHIDEE land surface model : Model Ouput Data
<p>This upload includes data associated with the manuscript "Global agricultural ammonia emissions simulated with the ORCHIDEE land surface model : )" submitted to Geoscientific Model Development. The dataset includes an output file with the simulated ammonia emissions for the agricultural sector.</p> <p>The emissions (manure management and soil), manure production and soil ammonium concentrations are monthly fields from the simulation for 2007-2015.</p> <p>Additional information is given in the readme file</p>
Map of SESs/STs Bundles for Estonian agricultural land
<p>The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.</p> <p><span>This map is the outcome of applying a bundles cookbook developed in SERENA based on soil threats (ST) SOC loss and erosion potential and soil ecosystem service (SES) biomass production. The resulting bundles are clusters of SESs/STs where the intra-cluster variability is lower than the inter-cluster variability in the mean values of the selected SESs/STs to identify the bundles. </span><span>The generated map of SESs/STs Bundles for Estonian agricultural land is at the resolution of 100m. The input data for the cookbook was the Map of soil organic carbon loss of mineral soils in Estonia ; Soil water erosion potential in agricultural soils modelled by USLE, and primary biomass production. </span></p>
Data supplement for "Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity and human nutrition"
<p>This data supplements the publication "Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity and human nutrition" by Thomas Kastner, Abhishek Chaudhary, Simone Gingrich, Alexandra Marques, U. Martin Persson, Giorgio Bidoglio, Gaëtane Le Provost, Florian Schwarzmüller, available here:</p> <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.006">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.006</a></p> <p>For details, please refer to that publication.</p>
Data and Code from: On-farm land management strategies and production challenges in United States Organic Agricultural Systems.
<p>This repository contains data and code used in:</p> <p>Isaac Mpanga, Russel Trondstad, Jessica Guo, David LeBauer, and John Omololu, 2021. On-farm land management strategies and production challenges in United States Organic Agricultural Systems. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability.</p> <p>It provides USDA Surveys of Agricultural Production from 2008-2019 to investigate state and national trends by state in organic farm area, number, and sales, as well to evaluate national trends in on-farm land-use practices and challenges facing US organic production.</p> <p>It also includes code used to transform, visualize, and analyze the data, and derived data products - notably organic farm area and sales with values imputed to correct for redacted state level measures.</p>
Typology of agricultural land systems of Germany at a resolution of 100 hectares.
The decline of farmland biodiversity has widely been recognized in society and politics. Many factors that negatively affect biodiversity are associated with agriculture. European policy instruments and measures, which aimed at mitigating these impacts, have not been successful in counteracting the negative trends of farmland biodiversity. There is a growing recognition that conservation policy instruments need to be spatially targeted, given the heterogeneity of agricultural landscapes and extent of agricultural intensification in Europe. For Germany, we developed a typology of agricultural land systems (ALS) that captures the regional characteristics of agricultural intensification. For this purpose, we applied a cluster-analysis integrating indicators for land cover, landscape structure, land-use intensity, climate and relief at a resolution of with a spatial resolution of 1 km². As a result, we present a typology of eight ALS ranging from large-scale, intensive arable farming to extensive grassland/forest mosaics in mountains. The data included in this package contain the typology ALS and the corresponding values for the indicators for each hexagonal grid cell of 1 km²cell size. The typology of ALS could be used as a spatial framework for regional targeting of conservation policy instruments and for monitoring regional-specific trends of biodiversity indicators and their drivers. The data are supplement to the publication: Pingel, M; Sietz, D; Röder, N; Klimek, S and Golla, B. (2025) Typology of Agricultural Land Systems to Support Tailored Agri-Environmental Schemes for Farmland Biodiversity: A Case Study from Germany. [Preprint]. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5162566.
Simulated bioenergy crop yield on agricultural land in a 10-county region of western North Carolina.
We used a mechanistic plant growth model, ALMANAC (Kiniry 1996), to simulate the growth of bioenergy crops including switchgrass, miscanthus, and hybrid poplar. We selected simulation points by overlaying SSURGO soil data polygons with a 1-km resolution observed climate dataset (Thornton et al. 2012). The centroid of each unique soil polygon and climate cell combination was used as a simulation point, resulting in over 69,000 simulation points. Crop growth was simulated at each point for 10 (grasses) or 12 (poplar) years and replicated 10 times. We limited our simulation to area currently identified as agriculture, pasture, grass- or shrubland in the 2012 National Cropdata Layer.
The effects of agricultural land-use history on non-native plant invasion in Bent Creek Experimental Forest in 2006
The researchers considered the effects of agricultural land-use legacies on the distribution of non-native invasive plants a century after abandonment in a watershed in western North Carolina, USA. The study was conducted at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF) 15 km southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, USA, in the Pisgah National Forest. Forest sites that were previously in cultivation and abandoned ca. 1905 were compared with nearby reference sites that were never cultivated. The most common invasive plants were Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb., Microstegium vimineum Trin., and Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Kuhman, Pearson, and Turner 2011). Disentangling the cause–effect relationships between land-use history, the biotic community, and the abiotic template presents a challenge, but understanding the role of land-use legacies may provide important insights regarding the mechanisms underlying the establishment and spread of invasive plants in forest ecosystems (Kuhman, Pearson, and Turner 2011). A total of 86 plots were established at Bent Creek Experimental Forest during the summer of 2006. Specifically, the study was conducted between June and August 2006. Half of these were established in historic agricultural plots and half in reference plots that were not formerly used for agriculture (pasture or rowcrops) based on the 1941 Forest Service Report by William Nesbitt and the appended land-use history map (History of early settlement and land use on the Bent Creek Experimental Forest Buncombe County, NC. 1941). Historic agriculture and reference plots were paired based on similarities in topography and bedrock geology (typically in relatively close proximity to one another). Within sites, two plots were established, one adjacent to the road and one 50 m away from the road (labeled as "A" and "B", respectively, in the "Plot #").
Global agricultural land use scenarios for estimating the potential of forest regeneration for climate mitigation to 2050
<p>The dataset includes 90 global food system and land use scenarios developed with the model BioBaM-GHG 2.0. The scenarios have been developed for assessing the global potential of forest regeneration for climate mitigation to 2050 under various food system pathways, i.e. diets, crop yield developments, land requirements for energy crops, and two variants of grassland use.</p> <p>The scenarios include the following data on country level: Land use and land-use change, cropland area by crop group, grazing area by quality classes, crop production by crop groups, crop consumption by crop groups and use types, crop wastes (losses), net imports/exports, production and consumption of animal products, grass supply and demand, GHG emissions from land-use change, GHG emissions from agricultural activities, and total cumulated GHG emissions.</p> <p>The main model result in this context, cumulative carbon sequestration from forest regeneration until 2050, is calculated as difference between the parameters "GHG emissions from land use change (cumulative) (Mt CO2e)" and "GHG emissions from land use change excluding C stock changes from natural succession (cumulative) (Mt CO2e)".</p> <p>Please refer to the related publication "Exploring the option space for land system futures at regional to global scales: The diagnostic agro-food, land use and greenhouse gas emission model BioBaM-GHG 2.0" (Kalt et al., 2021 - currently under review at Ecological Modelling) for further information.</p> <p>This work was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within project P29130-G27 GELUC.</p>
Supplementary Information S1 - Detailed results of the CAPRI N-LCA and S2 - Quantification of the main N budget flows in the EU25 agriculture sector of Leip, A., Billen, G., Garnier, J., Grizzetti, B., Lassaletta, L., Reis, S., Simpson, D., Sutton, M. a, de Vries, W., Weiss, F., Westhoek, H. (2015). Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity. Environ. Res. Lett. 10, 115004. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/115004
<p>Table S1-1 Quantification of GHG and Nr flow intensities [kg CO2eq (kg product)<sup>-1</sup> yr<sup>-1</sup>] or [g N (kg product)<sup>-1</sup> yr<sup>-1</sup>] with the CAPRI N-LCA model for six main livestock products (BEEF: beef, PORK: pork, EGGS: eggs, POUM: poultry meat; DAIR: milk and dairy products, SGMP: meat from sheep and goats) and six main vegetable food groups (POTA: potatoes, SUGB: sugar beet before processing, OILP: oil seeds before processing; CERR: cereals, LEGU: leguminous crops) as well as other crops (OCRP) and aggregated livestock (ANIMP) and vegetable (CROPP) food. </p> <p>Table S2-1 Quantification of the main N budget flows in the EU25 agriculture sector</p>
Fig. 1 in The impact of land use on species composition and habitat structure in Sudanian savannas - A modelling study in protected areas and agricultural lands of southeastern Burkina Faso
Fig. 1. − Study area including the Pama reserve and neighbouring PAs of the western WAPO complex. The Pama, Tindangou and Madjoari areas are enclaves where agriculture is allowed. The small country map in the lower right shows the position of the study area within Burkina Faso.
Fig. 3 in The impact of land use on species composition and habitat structure in Sudanian savannas - A modelling study in protected areas and agricultural lands of southeastern Burkina Faso
Fig. 3. − Maps of mean maximum plant size (calculated as average of maximum plant size of all species predicted as present within a grid cell). A. Grasses (Poaceae) (30-360 cm); B. Woody species (3-25 m). The color coding stretches from light yellow for the lowest values via orange and red to violet for the highest values.
Fig. 2 in The impact of land use on species composition and habitat structure in Sudanian savannas - A modelling study in protected areas and agricultural lands of southeastern Burkina Faso
Fig. 2. − Maps of species richness. A. All plant species (2-211 spp.); B. Graminoids (0-50 spp.); C. Forbs (0-86 spp.); D. Woody species (0-52 spp.); E. Weedy species (0-48 spp.); F. Non-weedy species (0-140 spp.). The color coding stretches from light yellow for the lowest values via orange and red to violet for the highest values.
Model output data and figures' code for Fujimori & Wu et al., Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security
<p>Model output data and figures' code for "Fujimori & Wu et al., Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security" in Nature Food (DOI: 10.1038/s43016-022-00464-4)</p>
Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions (v3.0)
<p><strong>Agricultural land resources – a global suitability evaluation (v3.0)</strong></p> <p>Local climate, soil and topography determine the conditions under which agricultural crops are suitable for growth or not. The methodology uses a fuzzy logic approach that is described in Zabel et al. (2014). The approach is based on Liebig's law of the minimum. Accordingly, plant suitability is determined not by total available resources, but by the scarcest resource. The limiting factor depends on the local environmental conditions and the crop-specific requirements, that are taken from literature. </p> <p><strong>Determining Agricultural Suitability</strong></p> <p>Agricultural suitability is calculated for each of 5 climate models (GFDL, HadGEM2, IPSL, MIROC and NorESM1) from the AR5 ISIMIP fast track protocol. Daily climate model data for temperature, precipitation and solar radiation are statistically downscaled to 30 arc seconds spatial resolution. A monthly bias-correction is applied using WorldClim data. The provided suitability data refers to the model median over the 5 climate simulations. Soil data is taken from the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) v1.21. Considered soil properties are texture, proportion of coarse fragments and gypsum, base saturation, pH content, organic carbon content, salinity, sodicity. Soil depth is taken into account according to Pelletier et al. (2015). Topography data is applied from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Irrigation has strong impact on the suitability of crops and is considered in this approach.</p> <p><strong>Agricultural Suitability</strong></p> <p>The agricultural suitability data is provided at a spatial resolution of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 km<sup>2</sup> at the equator). The dataset contains four time periods (1980-2009, 2010-2039, 2040-2069, 2070-2099) and two climate change scenarios (RCP2.6 and RCP 8.5). Agricultural suitability is provided for rainfed conditions and for irrigated conditions seperately. Additionally, we provide a dataset in which the current irrigation areas according to Maier et al. (2018) are applied. The suitability is provided for 23 food, feed, fibre, and 1st and 2nd generation bio-energy crops. An 'overall suitability' is provided for all crops that considers the most suitable crop on each pixel. Additionally, we provide a dataset excluding 2nd generation bioenergy crops (18-23) from the overall aggregation of crops.</p> <table> <caption><strong>Food, feed, fiber and first-generation bioenergy crops</strong></caption> <tbody> <tr> <td>Barley</td> <td>Potato</td> <td>Sugarbeet</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cassava</td> <td>Rapeseed</td> <td>Sugarcane</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Groundnut</td> <td>Rice</td> <td>Sunflower</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Maize</td> <td>Rye</td> <td>Summer wheat</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Millet</td> <td>Sorghum</td> <td>Winter wheat</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oilpalm</td> <td>Soybean</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <caption> <p><strong>Second-generation bioenergy crops</strong></p> </caption> <tbody> <tr> <td>Jatropha</td> <td>Reed canary grass</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Miscanthus</td> <td>Eucalyptus</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Switchgrass</td> <td>Willow</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Growing Season Adaptation</strong></p> <p>The agricultural suitability considers the adaptation of the growing season. For each pixel and crop, the growing season is optimized throughout the year, taking the annual course of precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation as well as their interplay, into account.</p> <p><strong>Most Suitable Crop</strong></p> <p>The most suitable crop for each pixel is provided in the data. Please note that a value of 126 means that no crop suitable and 127 means that multiple crops have the same suitability.</p> <p><strong>Further information</strong></p> <p>Detailled information are available in the following publications:</p> <p>Zabel F, Putzenlechner B, Mauser W (2014) Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions. PLOS ONE 9(9): e107522. doi: <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107522">10.1371/journal.pone.0107522</a></p> <p>Cronin, J., Zabel, F., Dessens, O., Anandarajah, G. (2020): Land suitability for energy crops under scenarios of climate change and land-use. GCB Bioenergy, 12(8). doi: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12697">10.1111/gcbb.12697</a></p> <p>Schneider. J.M., Zabel, F., Mauser, W. (2022): Global inventory of suitable, cultivable and available cropland under different scenarios and policies. Scientific Data 9, 527. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01632-8">10.1038/s41597-022-01632-8</a></p> <p>Meier, J., Zabel, F., Mauser, W. (2018): A global approach to estimate irrigated areas – a comparison between different data and statistics. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1119–1133, 2018. doi: <a href="https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/1119/2018/">10.5194/hess-22-1119-201</a></p> <p>Pelletier, J. D., Broxton, P. D., Hazenberg, P., Zeng, X., Troch, P. A., Niu, G.-Y., Williams, Z., Brunke, M. A., and Gochis, D. (2016), A gridded global data set of soil, immobile regolith, and sedimentary deposit thicknesses for regional and global land surface modeling, <em>J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.</em>, 8, 41– 65, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000526">10.1002/2015MS000526</a>.</p> <p><strong>Improvements in v3.0</strong></p> <p>Compared to the previous version (<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3748350">v2.0</a>), this version (v3.0) <em>uses updated input data for soil (HWSD v1.21) and high resolution irrigated areas (Maier et al. 2018), and additionally considers soil depth (Pelletier et al. 2016). Moreover, the suitability is calculated for an ensemble of 5 climate models, and is available for more crops, including a number of second generation bioenergy crops.</em></p> <p><strong>Contact</strong></p> <p>Please contact: Dr. Florian Zabel, <a href="mailto:f.zabel@lmu.de">f.zabel@lmu.de</a>, Department of Geography, LMU München (<a href="http://www.geografie.uni-muenchen.de">www.geografie.uni-muenchen.de</a>)</p>
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