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Description

The India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001 - 2016 consists of annual winter cropped areas for most of India (except the Northeastern states) from 2000-2001 to 2015-2016. This data set utilizes the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI; spatial resolution: 250m) for the winter growing season (October-March). The methodology uses an automated algorithm identifying the EVI peak in each pixel for each year and linearly scales the EVI value between 0% and 100% cropped area within that particular pixel. Maps were then resampled to 1 km and were validated using high-resolution QuickBird, RapidEye, SkySat, and WorldView-2 images spanning 2008 to 2016 across 11 different agricultural regions of India. The spatial resolution of the data set is 1 km, resampled from 250m. The data are distributed as GeoTIFF and NetCDF files and are in WGS 84 projection.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS,
Terra
Instruments
Computer,
MODIS
Spatial Extent
N: 37.073831 S: 8.083816 E: 89.150397 W: 68.106253
Spatial Resolution
0.008868 Decimal Degrees x 0.008868 Decimal Degrees
Geographic Region
INDIA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2001-03-31 to 2016-03-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
c3550194092-esdis
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Jain, M., Mondal, P., Galford, G. L., Fiske, G., & DeFries, R. S. (2016). India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001-2016 (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H47D2S3W Date Accessed: 2025-06-23

Additional Citation

Jain, M., P. Mondal, G. L. Galford, G. Fiske, and R. S. DeFries. 2017. An Automated Approach to Map Winter Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms across Large Scales Using MODIS Imagery. Remote Sensing 9 (6): 566. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060566

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