An irrigated area map of the world (1999) derived from remote sensing

Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Biradar, Chandrashekhar M.; Turral, Hugh; Noojipady, Praveen; Li, Yuanjie; Vithanage, Jagath; Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu; Velpuri, Naga Manohar; Schull, M.; Xueliang Cai; Dutta, Rishiraj

An irrigated area map of the world (1999) derived from remote sensing

Autores

Thenkabail, Prasad S.

Biradar, Chandrashekhar M.

Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu

Velpuri, Naga Manohar

Schull, M.

Xueliang Cai

Editor

International Water Management Institute

Descripción

This document summarizes the materials and methods used to create a series of maps of irrigated areas of the world using remote sensing approaches. These maps are complementary to existing statistics (FAO-Aquastat) and the GISderived maps (FAO/University of Frankfurt Global irrigated area map). The document also provides details of how the estimates of global irrigated areas in one main season (net) and more than one season (intensity or annualized) were derived.