Datasets / CropScape - Cropland Data Layer


CropScape - Cropland Data Layer

Published By Department of Agriculture

Issued over 9 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The geospatial data product called the Cropland Data Layer (CDL) is hosted on CropScape (http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/). The CDL is a raster, geo-referenced, crop-specific land cover data layer created annually for the continental United States using moderate resolution satellite imagery and extensive agricultural ground truth.