Towards global agriculture mapping on a seasonal basis
One of the main requirements of WorldCereal is to dynamically map global agriculture. In contrast to other products that give an estimation of the agricultural land per year or averaged over three years, WorldCereal maps global agriculture on a seasonal basis. But how to define these seasons and which seasons do we take into account?
Building on work performed by FAO, JRC, GEOGLAM-crop monitor, the WorldCereal team has created global crop calendars for wheat and maize, the two target crops of WorldCereal, to define start and end of the different growing seasons.
Discover more in the recently published paper 'Global crop calendars of maize and wheat in the framework of the WorldCereal project'.
Wheat crop calendar maps over a base map from the Google Earth dataset.