CropScape Demo Innovations to Minimize Crop Loss in a Changing Climate Rick Mueller National Agricultural Statistics Service February 24, 2012
CropScape A web service based interactive map visualization, dissemination and querying system for U.S. cropland – No burden on users No client software development & installation No special software tools needed Data mashable Democratization of data – Equitable information access, automatic timely delivery, and geospatial navigation Collaboration with George Mason University/Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS)
~ 9 billion pixels/year! 2008 – 2011 National Cropland Data Layers Harmonize ALL historical CDL products to standard: color scheme, categories, projection, metadata.
’06-’07 ’05 & ’07 ’07 ’97-’07 ’04 ’99-’07 ’00-’07 ’04-’07 ’99-’07 ’01-’07 ’06-07 ’06-’07 ’01-’07 ’06-‘07 ’97-’07 ’06-’07 ’03-’07 ’02 ’00-’07 ’06-’07 ’07 ’02 Harmonize ALL historical CDL products to standard: color scheme, categories, projection, metadata – 2007 Cropland Data Layers
Navigation Pixel Query AOI Query Social Media Help Print/Download Stats/Change Data View Overview CropScape Components
By State By State & ASD Select an Area of Interest
By Rectangle, Circle, or Polygon By State, District & County Select an Area of Interest
Crop Statistics Pixel counting is usually downward biased when compared to official estimates. Counting pixels and multiplying by the area of each pixel will result in biased area estimates and should be considered raw numbers needing bias correction. Official crop acreage estimates are available at
Change Analysis
Download/Mashup ™
National Cropland Data Layer Legend
CropScape Google Analytics
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