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Historical global agricultural (cropland and pasture) areas and land cover

Image obtained from the published article: Link Here.


Data Description:

Reconstruct spatially explicit changes in global agricultural areas (cropland and pasture) and the resulting changes in land cover over the last millennium based on published maps of agricultural areas for the last three centuries. For earlier times, a country-based method is developed that uses population data as a proxy for agricultural activity.

Vegetation types:

1 Tropical evergreen forest

2 Tropical deciduous forest

3 Temperate evergreen broadleaf forest

4 Temperate/boreal deciduous broadleaf forest

5 Temperate/boreal evergreen conifers

6 Temperate/boreal deciduous conifers

7 Raingreen shrubs

8 Summergreen shrubs

9 C3 natural grasses

10 C4 natural grasses

11 Tundra

12 Crop

13 C3 pasture

14 C4 pasture

Data Access Link(s)* :

GEE Link*:

• Not Available

Data Format & Resolution (if applicable):

• Raster - 55 km

Temporal Coverage (Years Available):

• Multiple Years (AD 1700 to 1992)

Data completeness:

Global - Number of Countries Unspecified

Source(s) and/or Author(s):

Pongratz et al (2008)

Literature Reference Link(s) *:

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