Africa Cropland Extent Map for 2019 at 10-Meter Resolution

2019 cropland locations across Africa, estimated from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The map has a 10-meter resolution and was produced using a Random Forest model trained on data from eight Agro-Ecological Zones. Digital Earth Africa created this provisional map and released it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Estimate agricultural land area based on the continental cropland extent map.
• Analyze regional farming patterns based on the separate maps for eight Agro-Ecological Zones.
• Validate or supplement ground surveys using the 10-meter resolution satellite-derived data.
• Model crop productivity or food security risks using the identified cropland locations.

Strengths

• Provides continental-scale coverage for Africa.
• Uses 10-meter resolution Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
• Methodology is documented in public Jupyter Notebooks.
• Trained with data from eight distinct Agro-Ecological Zones.

Limitations

• Excludes perennial crops and non-planted grazing lands, as noted in the description.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Digital Earth Africa

Collection Method

Built using a Random Forest machine learning model applied to Sentinel-2 satellite images.

Time Range

January to December 2019

Freshness

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Geography

Africa