TY  - UNPD
A1  - Siebert, Stefan
A1  - Hoogeveen, Jippe
A1  - Frenken, Karen
T1  - Irrigation in Africa, Europe and Latin America : update of the Digital Global Map of Irrigation Areas to version 4
T2  - Frankfurt hydrology paper ; 5
N2  - The Land and Water Development Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, are cooperating in the development of a global irrigation-mapping facility. This report describes an update of the Digital Global Map of Irrigation Areas for the continents of Africa and Europe as well as for the countries Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay in Latin America. For this update, an new inventory of subnational irrigation statistics was compiled. The reference year for the statistics is 2000. Adding up the irrigated areas per country as documented in the report gives a total of 48.8 million ha while the total area equipped for irrigation at the global scale is 278.8 million ha. The total number of subnational units in the inventory used for this update is 16 822 while the number of subnational units in the global inventory increased to 26 909. In order to distribute the irrigation statistics per subnational unit, digital spatial data layers and printed maps were used. Irrigation maps were derived from project reports, irrigation subsector studies, and books related to irrigation and drainage. These maps were digitized and compared with satellite images of many regions. In areas without spatial information on irrigated areas, additional information was used to locate areas where irrigation is likely, such as land-cover and land-use maps that indicate agricultural areas or areas with crops that are usually grown under irrigation.
T3  - Frankfurt Hydrology Paper - 5 
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1564
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-38468
PB  - Univ., Inst. of Physical Geography
CY  - Frankfurt (Main)
ER  -