Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural crops for Central Asia V001

The Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural crops (GHISA) is a comprehensive compilation, collation, harmonization, and standardization of hyperspectral signatures of agricultural crops of the world. This hyperspectral library of agricultural crops is developed for all major world crops and was collected by United States Geological Survey (USGS) and partnering volunteer agencies from around the world. Crops include wheat, rice, barley, corn, soybeans, cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and pigeon peas, which together occupy about 65% of all global cropland areas. The GHISA spectral libraries were collected and collated using spaceborne, airborne (e.g., aircraft and drones), and ground based hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy. The GHISA for the Conterminous United States (GHISACONUS) Version 1 product provides dominant crop data in different growth stages for various agroecological zones (AEZs) of the United States. The GHISA hyperspectral library of the five major agricultural crops (e.g., winter wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, and cotton) for CONUS was developed using Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Hyperion hyperspectral data acquired from 2008 through 2015 from different AEZs of CONUS using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cropland Data Layer (CDL) as reference data. GHISACONUS is comprised of seven AEZs throughout the United States covering the major agricultural crops in six different growth stages: emergence/very early vegetative (Emerge VEarly), early and mid vegetative (Early Mid), late vegetative (Late), critical, maturing/senescence (Mature Senesc), and harvest. The crop growth stage data were derived using crop calendars generated by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Provided in the CSV file is the spectral library including image information, geographic coordinates, corresponding agroecological zone, crop type labels, and crop growth stage labels for the United States.

The Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural crops (GHISA) is a comprehensive compilation, collation, harmonization, and standardization of hyperspectral signatures of agricultural crops of the world. This hyperspectral library of agricultural crops is developed for all major world crops and was collected by United States Geological Survey (USGS) and partnering volunteer agencies from around the world. Crops include wheat, rice, barley, corn, soybeans, cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and pigeon peas, which together occupy about 65% of all global cropland areas. The GHISA spectral libraries were collected and collated using spaceborne, airborne (e.g., aircraft and drones), and ground based hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy. The GHISA spectral library for California’s Central Valley (CCV) derived from German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) (GHISACCVDESIS) Version 1 product provides information for nine crop classes: cotton, grapes, hay, tomatoes, tree crops, winter wheat, other crops, fallow, and other. GHISACCVDESIS was developed using 75 DESIS hyperspectral images of California’s Central Valley acquired during the month of August for years 2021 through 2023. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Cropland Data Layer (CDL) was used as reference data. The spectral library is provided in an Excel spreadsheet, which includes unique sample identifier, sample location (latitude and longitude), sensor product, acquisition month and year, reflectance spectra in percent surface reflectance, and crop class label for each sample point within California’s Central Valley.

The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) data product provides cropland extent data over South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran for nominal year 2015 at 30 meter resolution (GFSAD30SAAFGIRCE). The monitoring of global cropland extent is critical for policymaking and provides important baseline data that are used in many agricultural cropland studies pertaining to water sustainability and food security. The GFSAD30SAAFGIRCE data product uses the pixel-based supervised classifier, Random Forest (RF), to retrieve cropland extent from a combination of Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and elevation derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Version 3 data products. Each GFSAD30SAAFGIRCE GeoTIFF file contains a cropland extent layer that defines areas of cropland, non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area. Known Issues * Known issues, including constraints and limitations, are provided on page 18 of the ATBD.

The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) data product provides cropland extent data over Europe, Central Asia, Russia and the Middle East for nominal year 2015 at 30 meter resolution (GFSAD30EUCEARUMECE). The monitoring of global cropland extent is critical for policymaking and provides important baseline data that are used in many agricultural cropland studies pertaining to water sustainability and food security. The GFSAD30EUCEARUMECE product uses a pixel-based supervised random forest machine learning algorithm to retrieve cropland extent from a combination of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+), Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data, and elevation derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Version 3 data products. Each GFSAD30EUCEARUMECE GeoTIFF file contains a cropland extent layer that defines areas of cropland, non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area. Known Issues * Known issues, including constraints and limitations, are provided on page 20 of the ATBD.

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 NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Global Food Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) data product provides cropland extent data over the continent of Africa for nominal year 2015 at 30 meter resolution (GFSAD30AFCE). The monitoring of global cropland extent is critical for policymaking and provides important baseline data that are used in many agricultural cropland studies pertaining to water sustainability and food security. The GFSAD30AFCE data product uses two pixel-based supervised classifiers, Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), and one object-oriented classifier, Recursive Hierarchical Image Segmentation (RHSEG). The classifiers retrieve cropland extent from a combination of Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) data and elevation derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Version 3 data products. Each GFSAD30AFCE GeoTIFF file contains a cropland extent layer that defines areas of cropland, non-cropland, and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area. Known Issues * Known issues, including constraints and limitations, are provided on page 20 of the ATBD.