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The Landsat-Derived Global Irrigated-Cropland Product Level 1 2020 (LGRIP30_L1_IRRI) Version 2 data provides high-resolution, 30 meter (m) cropland data to assist and address food and water security issues of the twenty-first century. As an extension of the Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) project, LGRIP_L1_IRRI V2 maps agricultural lands by dividing them into 32 irrigated cropland types and calculates applicable cropland areas across the globe. LGRIP data are produced using Landsat 8 time-series satellite sensor data for the 2019 through 2021 time period to create a nominal 2020 product. Each LGRIP30 L1 V2 Irrigated 30 m resolution GeoTIFF file contains a layer that identifies areas of irrigated cropland (cropland that had at least one irrigation during the crop growing period) divided into 32 types, non-irrigated land (rainfed cropland and areas not classified as cropland), and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area, as well as an accuracy assessment of the product. A low-resolution browse image is also included. Currently, LGRIP30 V2 products contain data only for the conterminous United States (CONUS). LGRIP30 V2 data covering the rest of the globe will be added at a later date.

Global Map of Irrigation Areas - Version 5 Grid with percentage of area equipped for irrigation with a spatial resolution of 5 arc minutes or 0.083333 decimal degrees. This dataset is developed in the framework of the AQUASTAT Programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems University, Germany. The map shows the amount of area equipped for irrigation around the year 2005 in percentage of the total area on a raster with a resolution of 5 minutes. Additional map layers show the percentage of the area equipped for irrigation that was actually used for irrigation and the percentages of the area equipped for irrigation that was irrigated with groundwater, surface water or non-conventional sources of water. In details, the following products have been released and made available for download: - Area equipped for irrigation expressed as percentage of total area: total=aei, surface water=aeisw, groundwater=aeigw, non-conventional sources of water=aeinc (ASCII-grid); - Area actually irrigated expressed as percentage of area equipped for irrigation (ASCII-grid); - Area equipped for irrigation expressed in hectares per cell (ASCII-grid); - Irrigated areas v.5 (ESRI shapefile); - High and low resolution images (PDF); - Quality Assessment (Excel) Due to the map generation method, the quality of the map can never be uniform. The overall quality of the map depends heavily on the individual quality of the data for the different countries. **Data revision:** 2013-10-07 **Supplemental Information:** The maps are generated as a grid with a cellsize of 5 arc minutes. For the GIS-users the maps are distributed in two different formats: as a zipped ASCII-grid that can be easily imported in most GIS-software that support rasters or grids; and, to accommodate people who use GIS-software that doesn't support rasters or grids, as a zipped ESRI shape file. The non-GIS-users can download the map as PDF-file in two different resolutions. **Citation:** Users are requested to refer to the map as follows: "Stefan Siebert, Verena Henrich, Karen Frenken and Jacob Burke (2013). Global Map of Irrigation Areas version 5. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy". **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** Due to the map generation method, the quality of the map can never be uniform. The overall quality of the map depends heavily on the individual quality of the data for the different countries. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Global Map of Irrigation Areas (GMIA) on the AQUASTAT website Download - Global area equipped for irrigation expressed as percentage of total area - Raster (ASCII-grid, 2.3 MB) Download - Global area equipped for irrigation expressed in hectares per cell - Raster (ASCII-grid, 2.3 MB) Download - Global Map of Irrigation Areas v.5 - Vector (ESRI shapefile, 4 MB) Download - Global Map of Irrigation Areas v.5 - All files Download - Global Map of Irrigation Areas v.5 - High resolution image (PDF, 3.1 MB) Download - Global Map of Irrigation Areas v.5 - Low resolution image (PDF, 0.9 MB)

The Landsat-Derived Global Irrigated-Cropland Product Level 2 2020 (LGRIP30_L2_IRRI) Version 2 data provides high-resolution, 30 meter (m) cropland data to assist and address food and water security issues of the twenty-first century. As an extension of the Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) project, LGRIP_L2_IRRI V2 maps agricultural lands by dividing them into irrigated single crop, double crop, and continuous croplands, and calculates applicable cropland areas across the globe. LGRIP data are produced using Landsat 8 time-series satellite sensor data for the 2019 through 2021 time period to create a nominal 2020 product. Each LGRIP L2 Irrigated 30 m resolution GeoTIFF file contains a layer that identifies areas of irrigated cropland (cropland that had at least one irrigation during the crop growing period) divided into single, double, and continuous crop classifications, non-irrigated land (rainfed cropland and areas not classified as cropland), and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area, as well as an accuracy assessment of the product. A low-resolution browse image is also included. Currently, LGRIP30 V2 products only contain data for the conterminous United States (CONUS). LGRIP30 V2 data covering the rest of the globe will be added at a later date.

This map, compiled to support the analysis of SOLAW report concerning trends and current use of water use in agriculture, shows the percentage of irrigated area supplied by groundwater. Irrigation mainly relies on renewable freshwater resources, either surface water or groundwater. However, while the extent of irrigation and related water uses are reported in statistical databases or by model simulations, information on the source of irrigation water is still very rare. A recent global inventory undertaken by FAO and the University of Bonn reports that 113 million ha, or 38 percent of the total area equipped for irrigation of 301 million ha, is irrigated by groundwater (Siebert et al, 2010). **Data creation:** 2025-12-11 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** Input data for this map include: - Global map of irrigation areas at 5 arc-min (Siebert et al., 2007) - Data on sources of irrigation water available by country through the FAO AQUASTAT database - Additional data obtained through desk studies on distribution of sources of irrigation water. The legend indicates the share of irrigated land serviced by groundwater in each pixel. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download - Percentage of irrigated area serviced by groundwater (ESRI GRID) SOLAW web page

The Landsat-Derived Global Rainfed and Irrigated-Cropland Product (LGRIP) provides high resolution, global cropland data to assist and address food and water security issues of the twenty-first century. As an extension of the Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) project, LGRIP maps the world’s agricultural lands by dividing them into irrigated and rainfed croplands and calculates irrigated and rainfed areas for every country in the world. LGRIP data are produced using Landsat 8 time-series satellite sensor data for the 2014-2017 time period to create a nominal 2015 product. Each LGRIP 30 meter resolution GeoTIFF file contains a contains a layer that identifies areas of rainfed cropland (cropland areas that are purely dependent on direct precipitation), irrigated cropland (cropland that had at least one irrigation during the crop growing period), non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area, as well as an accuracy assessment of the product. A low-resolution browse image is also available.

The Landsat-derived Global Rainfed and Irrigated-Cropland Product Level 3 2020 (LGRIP30_L3) Version 2 data provides high-resolution, 30 meter (m) cropland data to assist and address food and water security issues of the twenty-first century. As an extension of the Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) project, LGRIP L3 V2 maps agricultural croplands by dividing them into irrigated and rainfed croplands, and calculates irrigated and rainfed areas across the globe. LGRIP data are produced using Landsat 8 time-series satellite sensor data for the 2019 through 2021 time period to create a nominal 2020 product. Each LGRIP30 L3 V2 30 m resolution GeoTIFF file contains a layer that identifies areas of rainfed cropland (cropland areas that are purely dependent on direct precipitation without any artificial watering), irrigated cropland (cropland that had at least one irrigation during the crop growing period), non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area, as well as an accuracy assessment of the product. A low-resolution browse image is also included. Currently, LGRIP30 V2 products only contain data for the conterminous United States (CONUS). LGRIP30 V2 data covering the rest of the globe will be added at a later date.