CropScape Demo Innovations to Minimize Crop Loss in a Changing Climate

Rick Mueller National Agricultural Statistics Service

February 24, 2012

CropScape

• A web service based interactive map visualization,

dissemination and querying system for U.S. cropland – No burden on users

• No client software development & installation • No special software tools needed • Data mashable • Democratization of data

– Equitable information access, automatic timely delivery, and geospatial navigation

• Collaboration with George Mason University/Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS)

http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape

~ 9 billion pixels/year!

2008 – 2011 National Cropland Data Layers

Harmonize ALL historical CDL products to standard: color scheme, categories, projection, metadata.

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’07

’97-’07

’04

’99-’07

’00-’07

’04-’07

’99-’07

’06-07

’06-’07

’01-’07

’06-‘07

’97-’07 ’06-’07

’03-’07

’00-’07 ’06-’07

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Harmonize ALL historical CDL products to standard: color scheme, categories, projection, metadata.

1997 – 2007 Cropland Data Layers

Navigation

Pixel Query

AOI Query

Social Media

Help Print/Download

Stats/Change Data View

Overview

CropScape Components

By State

By State & ASD

Select an Area of Interest

By Rectangle, Circle, or Polygon

By State, District & County

Select an Area of Interest

Crop Statistics

Pixel counting is usually downward biased when compared to official estimates. Counting pixels and multiplying by the area of each pixel will result in biased area estimates and should be considered raw numbers needing bias correction. Official crop acreage estimates are available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/.

Change Analysis

2010 2009

Download/Mashup

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National Cropland Data Layer Legend

CropScape Google Analytics

Research

Education

Agribusiness Land Cover Modeling

Mapping

Land Use

Crop Rotation

Pesticides

Water Use Soil and Water

Watersheds

Carbon

Crop Protection Disaster Assessment

Epidemiology

Crop Production

Yield

Fertilizer

Transportation

Ethanol

Irrigation Climate

Fertilizer Usage

Biofuel

Erosion

Data Mining

Environmental Risk

Planning

Commodity

CRP

Forest

Change Detection

Crop Intensity

Ecosystem

Land Management

Ecology

Pest Control

Soil Utilization

Acreage Estimates

Biodiesel

Water Quality

Urban Growth

Wildlife Habitat

Condition Assessment

NASS Cropland Data Layer Applications

http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape