The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) releases the annual Cropland Data Layer (CDL) via the NASS CropScape
geospatial portal <http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/>. The CDL product depicts agricultural land cover over the Continental
United States at 30 meters resolution. CropScape includes historical data dating back to 1997 for some locales. The CDL is
an annual raster, geo-referenced, crop-specific land cover data layer produced using satellite imagery and extensive agricultural
ground truth collected during the current growing season. The strength and emphasis of CropScape and the CDL is agricultural
land cover. Please note that no farmer reported data are derivable from CropScape or the Cropland Data Layer. Please reference
CropScape (http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/) or the official CDL website (http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/Cropland/SARS1a.htm)
for a list of the available states and years of data and the individual metadata files that contain the technical details.
NASS developed both the CropScape and VegScape web services in cooperation with the Center for Spatial Information Science
and Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Citation
Title CropScape - Cropland Data Layer
publication Date
2015-02-02
presentationForm
DIGITAL DOCUMENT
cited responsible party
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publisher
organisation Name
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Contact information
Address
, Washington, DC
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Earth Science > Land Surface > Land Use/Land Cover > Land Cover
thesaurus name >
Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
Theme keywords (theme):
crop cover
cropland
agriculture
geospatial
land cover
GIS
DEIMOS-1
UK-DMC 2
Landsat
CropScape
digital spatial data
thesaurus name >
Title None
Location keywords:
United States
U.S.
US
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
thesaurus name >
Title U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and their principal administrative
divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4,): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology
other Citation Details
Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:46:32 UTC 2016
purpose:
CropScape is the online distribution website for the USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer. The purpose of the Cropland Data Layer
Program is to use satellite imagery to (1) provide acreage estimates to the Agricultural Statistics Board for the state's
major commodities and (2) produce digital, crop-specific, categorized geo-referenced output products.
Resource language:
eng; USA
Resource progress code:
completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:
annually
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Disclaimer: Users of the CropScape and the Cropland Data Layer (CDL) are solely responsible for interpretations made from
these products. The CDL is provided 'as is' and the USDA, NASS does not warrant results you may obtain using the Cropland
Data Layer. Contact our staff at (HQ_RDD_GIB@nass.usda.gov) if technical questions arise in the use of the CDL. NASS does
maintain a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) section on the CDL website at <http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/Cropland/SARS1a.htm>.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: The USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer and the data offered on the CropScape website is provided to the public
as is and is considered public domain and free to redistribute. The USDA, NASS does not warrant any conclusions drawn from
these data.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: none
Spatial representation type code:
grid
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude
-127.8873
eastBoundLongitude
-74.1585
northBoundLatitude
47.9580
southBoundLatitude
23.1496
Temporal Extent
2014-01-01
Additional information on resource:
The data is available free for download through CropScape at <http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/>. Metadata, Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs), and the most current year of data are available free for download at the official website <http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/Cropland/SARS1a.htm>.
The data is also available free for download through the Geospatial Data Gateway at <http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/>.
point of contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name USDA, NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section staff
organisation Name
USDA, NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 703-877-8000
Fax 703-877-8044
Address
3251 Old Lee Highway, Room 305, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030-1504
Country USA
Please visit the official website <http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/Cropland/SARS1a.htm> for additional details. The Cropland
Data Layer is available free for download at <http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/> and <http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/>.
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata Constraints
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Metadata Access Constraints: No restrictions on the distribution or use of the metadata file
Metadata Constraints
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Metadata Use Constraints: No restrictions on the distribution or use of the metadata file
Metadata contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name USDA, NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section Staff
organisation Name
USDA, NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 703-877-8000
Fax 703-877-8044
Address
3251 Old Lee Highway, Room 305, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030-1504
Country USA