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Percentage of area equipped for irrigation (Global)

This map shows the extent of land area equipped for irrigation -expressed as percentage- around the turn of the 20th century according to the Global Map of Irrigation Areas (version 4.0.1), together with areas of rainfed agriculture.


Data are available from AQUASTAT - programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Date (Publication)
2010-10-28T15:38:00
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

The map is part of the SOLAW Report.

Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Place
  • World

  • Tag_AQUASTAT

Theme
  • SOLAW

  • Irrigation

  • Water withdrawals

  • hydrology

  • Managing Systems at Risk

  • AQUAMAPS_analyses

Discipline
  • hydrology

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

eng

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
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Supplemental Information

The spatial datasets used to produce this map are:


- The global map of irrigation areas at 5 arc-min (Siebert et al., 2007)

- The cropland categories of the global agricultural systems map (SOLAW report "Managing Systems at Risk", map 1.3).

Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326 - WGS84
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
SOLAW website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
1_6_AEI_rf.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Download- Percentage of area equipped for irrigation (ESRI GRID)

OnLine resource
GMIA page on AQUASTAT ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
aei_rf_38006 ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Percentage of area equipped for irrigation

File identifier
a6fe7f5b-b887-452b-922a-668b7771b450 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2022-01-28T07:58:25
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT ( )
FAO , Rome , Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_analyses Irrigation Managing Systems at Risk SOLAW Water withdrawals hydrology

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