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A Digital Global Map of Irrigated Areas

ICID Journal, Volume 49, Issue 2

Year of publication 2000

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Author Döll, P., Siebert, S.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) A Digital Global Map of Irrigated Areas is a publication related to the GMIA version 1. This paper, published on ICID Journal, 49(2), 55-66, describes the dataset, the data and map sources as well as the map generation, and it discusses the data uncertainty. The digital global map of irrigated areas was developed for the purpose of global modeling of water use and crop production, The map depicts the percentage of each 0.5˚ by 0.5˚ cell that was equipped for irrigation in 1995. It was derived by combining information from large-scale maps with outlines of irrigated areas (one or more countries per map), FAO data on totala irrigated area per country in 1995 and national data on total irrigated area per country, drainage basin or federal state.

This article is academically peer reviewed and published externally. This article is published in "Irrigation and Drainage" (the official journal of the International Commission on the Irrigation and Drainage - ICID), Volume 49, Issue 2, 2000

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Döll, P., Siebert, S. (2000): A Digital Global Map of Irrigated Areas. ICID Journal, 49(2), 55-66.

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