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High resolution, annual cropland and landcover maps for African countries

This site provides links to view and obtain high resolution cropland and landcover maps developed by Clark University’s Agricultural Impacts Research Group forselected African countries using various machine learning approaches applied to Planet imagery.

There are two types of data currently available:

  • Cropland: Annual (beginning in year 2018) crop field boundary maps of several African countries, developed using several different modeling approaches applied to Planet imagery (Estes et al, 2022a; Estes et al, 2022b; Wussah et al, 2023). Data are provided as vectorized boundaries, in both pmtile and geoparquet formats. These datasets are under active development, and more countries and annual maps are updated as they are created.
  • Landcover: A 2018 multi-class land cover map for Tanzania developed using U-Net applied to Planet imagery and Sentinel-1 time series derivatives (Song et al, 2023). See here for more detail on the methods and larger project (led by Dr. Lei Song) for which this map was created.