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 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.

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Author:Stefan Siebert, Petra DöllORCiDGND, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jean-Marc Faures, Karen Frenken, Sebastian Feick
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-330309
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-2-1299-2005
ISSN:1812-2116
Parent Title (English):Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions
Publisher:European Geosciences Union
Place of publication:Katlenburg-Lindau.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/08/01
Date of first Publication:2005/08/01
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/02/19
Volume:2
Page Number:29
First Page:1299
Last Page:1327
Note:
© Author(s) 2005. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
HeBIS-PPN:364116080
Institutes:Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen