Deriving a per-field land use and land cover map in an agricultural mosaic catchment

authored by

B. Seo, C. Bogner, P. Poppenborg, E. Martin, M. Hoffmeister, M. Jun, T. Koellner, B. Reineking, C.L. Shope, J. Tenhunen

Abstract

Detailed data on land use and land cover constitute important information for Earth system models, environmental monitoring and ecosystem services research. Global land cover products are evolving rapidly; however, there is still a lack of information particularly for heterogeneous agricultural landscapes. We censused land use and land cover field by field in the agricultural mosaic catchment Haean in South Korea. We recorded the land cover types with additional information on agricultural practice. In this paper we introduce the data, their collection and the post-processing protocol. Furthermore, because it is important to quantitatively evaluate available land use and land cover products, we compared our data with the MODIS Land Cover Type product (MCD12Q1). During the studied period, a large portion of dry fields was converted to perennial crops. Compared to our data, the forested area was underrepresented and the agricultural area overrepresented in MCD12Q1. In addition, linear landscape elements such as waterbodies were missing in the MODIS product due to its coarse spatial resolution. The data presented here can be useful for earth science and ecosystem services research. The data are available at the public repository Pangaea (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.823677).

Organisation(s)

Institute of Geobotany

Type

Article

Journal

Earth system science data

Volume

6

Pages

339-352

No. of pages

14

ISSN

1866-3508

Publication date

30.09.2014

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 15 - Life on Land

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-339-2014 (Access: Open)