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    Statewide Crop Mapping

    Metadata Updated: November 27, 2024

    For many years, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has collected land use data throughout the state and used this information to develop water use estimates for statewide and regional planning efforts, including water use projections, water use efficiency evaluation, groundwater model development, and water transfers. These data are essential for regional analysis and decision making, which has become increasingly important as DWR and other state agencies seek to address resource management issues, regulatory compliance issues, environmental impacts, ecosystem services, urban and economic development, and other issues. Increased availability of digital satellite imagery, aerial photography and new analytical tools make remote sensing based land use surveys possible at a field scale that is comparable to that of DWR’s historical on the ground field surveys. Current technologies allow accurate, large-scale crop and land use identification to be performed at desired time increments, and make possible more frequent and comprehensive statewide land use information. Responding to this need, DWR sought expertise and support for identifying crop types and other land uses and quantifying crop acreages statewide using remotely sensed imagery and associated analytical techniques. Currently, Statewide Crop Maps are available for the Water Years 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and PROVISIONALLY for 2022.

    Historic County Land Use Surveys spanning 1986 - 2015 may also be accessed using the CADWR Land Use Data Viewer: https://gis.water.ca.gov/app/CADWRLandUseViewer.

    For Regional Land Use Surveys follow: https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/region-land-use-surveys.

    For County Land Use Surveys follow: https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/county-land-use-surveys.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2024
    Publisher California Department of Water Resources
    Maintainer
    Identifier efa025e6-e421-42b1-8577-6e8c55958f3f
    Data First Published 2020-01-03T17:47:08.808847
    Data Last Modified 2024-05-24T20:40:58.823099
    Category Natural Resources, Water
    Public Access Level public
    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 8de211fc-a9dd-4a8b-808a-38809a3a5b86
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cb91642ada7c49bac9968e0e1c75eb3747a90dcf568bc142533378211e7716b1
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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