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Library CropScape: A Web service based application for exploring and disseminating US conterminous geospatial cropland data products for decision support

CropScape: A Web service based application for exploring and disseminating US conterminous geospatial cropland data products for decision support

CropScape: A Web service based application for exploring and disseminating US conterminous geospatial cropland data products for decision support

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Date of publication
december 2012
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400042297
Pages
111-123

The Cropland Data Layer (CDL) contains crop and other specific land cover classifications obtained using remote sensing for the conterminous United States. This raster-formatted and geo-referenced product has been widely used in such applications as disaster assessments, land cover and land use research, agricultural sustainability studies, and agricultural production decision-making. The traditional CDL data distribution channels include paper thematic maps, email data requests, CD/DVD media, and ftp bulk downloading. To effectively and efficiently meet the growing needs of our customers, CropScape (the name invented for a new interactive Web CDL exploring system) was developed to query, visualize, disseminate, and analyze CDL data geospatially through standard geospatial Web services in a publicly accessible online environment. CropScape not only offers the online functionalities of interactive map operations, data customization and downloading, crop acreage statistics, charting and graphing, and multitemporal change analysis as well in an interoperable manner, but also provides Web geoprocessing services such as automatic data delivery and on-demand crop statistics for uses in other applications. This system delivers dynamic user experiences with its comprehensive capabilities in an open geospatial context, and facilitates delivery and analysis of geospatial cropland information for decision support and various research endeavors. More than 17,000 users around the world have visited CropScape in its first 5months of availability.

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Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Han, Weiguo
Yang, Zhengwei
Di, Liping
Mueller, Richard

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