Occurrence of irrigated areas (FGGD)

The FGGD irrigated areas map is a global raster datalayer with a resolution of 5 arc-minutes. Each pixel in the map contains a value representing the percentage of the area equipped for irrigation. The data are a IIASA modification of FAO and University of Kessel (2002), Digital Global Map of Irrigated Areas v. 2.1. Please for the latest version refer to www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/irrigationmap/index10.stm

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Date (Publication)
2007-06-11
Edition

1.0
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

The FGGD Digital Atlas consists of more than 100 global database that allows to analyse food insecurity and poverty in relation to the environment.
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  FAO - GIS UNIT - ( GIS Manager )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 1 , Rome , 00153 , Italy
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme

  • irrigation

  • cropland

  • land use

  • hydrology
Place

  • World
Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Farming
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Supplemental Information

This dataset is contained in Module 5 "Land use patterns and land cover" of Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD) (FAO, 2007).
Reference system identifier
GCS_WGS_1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
2160
Resolution
0.08333333  ,
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
4320
Resolution
0.08333333  ,

Axis Dimensions Properties

No information provided.
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
Yes
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
Map5_5.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Occurrence of irrigated areas - Grid format (14.4 MB)

OnLine resource
geonetwork:irrigated_ar_14070 ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Occurrence of irrigated areas (FGGD)

Data quality info

No information provided.
File identifier
641e8b80-7592-11db-b9b2-000d939bc5d8 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2023-01-18T16:16:14
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  FAO - GIS UNIT - Mirella Salvatore ( Consultant )
Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 1 , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

cropland hydrology irrigation land use

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