TY  - JOUR
A1  - Siebert, Stefan
A1  - Döll, Petra
A1  - Hoogeveen, Jippe
A1  - Faures, Jean-Marc
A1  - Frenken, Karen
A1  - Feick, Sebastian
T1  - Development and validation of the global map of irrigation areas
T2  - Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions
N2  - A new version of a digital global map of irrigation areas was developed by combining irrigation statistics for 10825 sub-national statistical units and geo-spatial information on the location and extent of irrigation schemes. The map shows the percentage of each 5 arc minute by 5 arc minute cell that was equipped for irrigation around the year 2000. It is thus an important data set for global studies related to water and land use. This paper describes the data set and the mapping methodology and gives, for the first time, an estimate of the map quality at the scale of countries, world regions and the globe. Two indicators of map quality were developed for this purpose, and the map was compared to irrigated areas as derived from two remote sensing based global land cover inventories. We plan to further improve that data set; therefore comments, information and data that might contribute to that effort are highly welcome.
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33030
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-330309
SN  - 1812-2116
N1  - © Author(s) 2005. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
VL  - 2
SP  - 1299
EP  - 1327
PB  - European Geosciences Union
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau.
ER  -