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Projected expansion of cropland and pasture, 2000-2010

 ISO19115/19139 XML

Identification info
Title  Projected expansion of cropland and pasture, 2000-2010
Date  2007-06-25
Date type  Publication: Date identifies when the resource was issued
Edition  First
Presentation form  Digital map: Map represented in raster or vector form
Abstract 

The map is a regional (Neotropics) raster data layer with a resolution of 5 arc-minutes. The map

gives an indication of areas at risk of conversion to agriculture in parts of South America. Wassenaar et. al. (2006) identified the areas at highest risk of conversion to pasture and croplands, using a model that explicitly incorporates dimensions such as location, suitability and various factors affecting relative economic values of land uses. The map identifies deforestation hotspot areas (at risk of conversion to pasture and cropland). The data sources are from FAO.

Purpose  The State Of Food and Agriculture 2007 contains 4 global datasets, 2 South and Southeast Asia, 2 Neotropics datasets. The datasets are intended to provide an indication at the regional and global level of potential for farmers to provide environmental services.
Status  Completed: Production of the data has been completed
Point of contact
Organisation name  FAO - NRCE
Position name  FAO GIS UNIT
Role  Originator: Party who created the resource
Delivery point  Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
City  Rome
Postal code  00153
Country  Italy
Electronic mail address  gis-manager@fao.org
Maintenance and update frequency  As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary
Descriptive keywords  Projected expansion of cropland and pasture , neotropics , 2000-2010 , cropland (theme).
Descriptive keywords  South America (place).
Access constraints  Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor
Spatial representation type  Grid: Grid data is used to represent geographic data
Language  English
Character set  UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Topic category code  Geoscientific information
Topic category code  Environment
Extent
Geographic bounding box
North bound
West bound
Polygon((-82.1 -55.4,-33.8 -55.4,-33.8 13,-82.1 13,-82.1 -55.4))
 East bound
South bound
Supplemental Information  This dataset is created for the State Of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2007, Paying farmers for environmental services, FAO. This dataset relates to the Land use dataset for the region, available in GeoNetwork under the title "Land use in the Neotropics". Each pixel contains a class value of 3 cropland and pasture expansion, 2 for pasture expansion, 1 for cropland expansion, and 0 for all other pixels.
Distribution Information
Transfer options
Interactive Map  Projected expansion of cropland and pasture, 2000-2010
(OGC-WMS Server: http://data.fao.org/maps/wms?styles=geonetwork_j_def_cp_31154_style )
View in Google Earth  Projected expansion of cropland and pasture, 2000-2010   View in Google Earth
Spatial representation info
Number of dimensions 

2

Dimension name  Row: Ordinate (y) axis
Dimension size 

2160

Resolution
Units of measure  ,
Resolution 

0.08333333

Dimension name  Column: Abscissa (x) axis
Dimension size 

4320

Resolution
Units of measure  ,
Resolution 

0.08333333

Dimension name  Vertical: Vertical (z) axis
Resolution
Units of measure  ,
Cell geometry  Area: Each cell represents an area
Reference System Information
Code  WGS 1984
Data quality info
Hierarchy level  Dataset: Information applies to the dataset
Metadata
File identifier  f357b030-2323-11dc-abdf-000d939bc5d8
Metadata language  English
Character set  UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Date stamp  2009-04-21T16:51:27
Metadata standard name  ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version  1.0
Contact
Individual name  Renato Cumani
Organisation name  FAO - ESAE
Position name  Consultant
Role  Point of contact: Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource
Delivery point  Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
City  Rome
Postal code  00153
Country  Italy
Electronic mail address  renato.cumani@fao.org