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    • India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001-2016

    Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

    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.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060566
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H43R0QSG

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1458583603-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2017-11-10
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Category INDIA, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 40a6623c-ceef-4b35-994c-1b948a92530e
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial 68.106253 8.083816 89.150397 37.073831
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060566, https://doi.org/10.7927/H43R0QSG
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9332e480eab66904af6956a6711ae5ee271a77df90a74546860c1ff2a4392d4a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2001-03-31T00:00:00Z/2016-03-31T01:00:00Z

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