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.
| Author: | Stefan Siebert, Petra DöllORCiDGND, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jean-Marc Faures, Karen Frenken, Sebastian Feick |
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| 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): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
