Making Cropland Data Layer Data Accessible and Actionable in GIS Education

Weiguo Han; Zhengwei Yang; Liping Di; Ali Levent Yagci; Song Han

doi:10.1080/00221341.2013.838286

Making Cropland Data Layer Data Accessible and Actionable in GIS Education

Weiguo Han, Zhengwei Yang, Liping Di, Ali Levent Yagci, Song Han

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Abstract

The Cropland Data Layer (CDL) product provides categorized land-cover information encompassing the whole contiguous United States. Using the latest Web and geospatial interoperability technologies, CropScape was built to visualize, query, disseminate, and analyze historical and current CDL data interactively and intuitively over the Internet. CropScape can be utilized as a useful online mapping educational tool and an important source of free geospatial data and geospatial Web services in GIS education. This article introduces the CDL product and functions of CropScape, and presents several specific examples of cropland exploring, thematic map creation, natural disaster assessment, crop planting patterns discovery, geospatial data mashup, and geospatial Web application development to demonstrate CropScape's capabilities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	129-138
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Geography
Volume	113
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2013.838286
State	Published - May 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

GIS
Web-portal
geography education
land-cover change

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