Development and validation of the global map of irrigation areas

  • A new version of a digital global map of irrigation areas was developed by combining irrigation statistics for 10 825 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.

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Author:Stefan Siebert, Petra DöllORCiDGND, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jean-Marc Faures, Karen Frenken, Sebastian Feick
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-37330
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-9-535-2005
ISSN:1607-7938
ISSN:1027-5606
Parent Title (English):Hydrology and earth system sciences
Publisher:European Geosciences Union
Place of publication:Katlenburg-Lindau.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/11/16
Date of first Publication:2005/11/16
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2007/02/16
Volume:9
Page Number:13
First Page:535
Last Page:547
Note:
© 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
Source:Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 535-547, 2005 ; www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/9/535/2005/
HeBIS-PPN:189066954
Institutes:Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht