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Lesiv M, Laso Bayas JC, See L, Duerauer M, Dahlia D, Durando N, Hazarika R, Kumar Sahariah P, Vakolyuk M, Blyshchyk V, Bilous A, Perez‐Hoyos A, Gengler S, Prestele R, Bilous S, Akhtar IUH, Singha K, Choudhury SB, Chetri T, Malek Ž, Bungnamei K, Saikia A, Sahariah D, Narzary W, Danylo O, Sturn T, Karner M, McCallum I, Schepaschenko D, Moltchanova E, Fraisl D, Moorthy I, Fritz S. Estimating the global distribution of field size using crowdsourcing. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:174-186. [PMID: 30549201 PMCID: PMC7379266 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 09/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
There is an increasing evidence that smallholder farms contribute substantially to food production globally, yet spatially explicit data on agricultural field sizes are currently lacking. Automated field size delineation using remote sensing or the estimation of average farm size at subnational level using census data are two approaches that have been used. However, both have limitations, for example, automatic field size delineation using remote sensing has not yet been implemented at a global scale while the spatial resolution is very coarse when using census data. This paper demonstrates a unique approach to quantifying and mapping agricultural field size globally using crowdsourcing. A campaign was run in June 2017, where participants were asked to visually interpret very high resolution satellite imagery from Google Maps and Bing using the Geo-Wiki application. During the campaign, participants collected field size data for 130 K unique locations around the globe. Using this sample, we have produced the most accurate global field size map to date and estimated the percentage of different field sizes, ranging from very small to very large, in agricultural areas at global, continental, and national levels. The results show that smallholder farms occupy up to 40% of agricultural areas globally, which means that, potentially, there are many more smallholder farms in comparison with the two different current global estimates of 12% and 24%. The global field size map and the crowdsourced data set are openly available and can be used for integrated assessment modeling, comparative studies of agricultural dynamics across different contexts, for training and validation of remote sensing field size delineation, and potential contributions to the Sustainable Development Goal of Ending hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
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Affiliation(s)
- Myroslava Lesiv
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- Department of Energy and Mass Exchange in GeosystemsState Institution Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth Institute of Geological Science National Academy of Sciences of UkraineKyivUkraine
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- Forest ManagementNacional'nyj Universytet Bioresursiv i Pryrodokorystuvannya UkrayinyKyivUkraine
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- Department of Energy and Mass Exchange in GeosystemsState Institution Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth Institute of Geological Science National Academy of Sciences of UkraineKyivUkraine
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra SectorIspraItaly
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- Environmental SciencesUniversité catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life InstituteLouvain‐la‐NeuveBelgium
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Environmental Geography GroupVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Forest ManagementNacional'nyj Universytet Bioresursiv i Pryrodokorystuvannya UkrayinyKyivUkraine
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- Department of MeteorologyCOMSATS UniversityIslamabadPakistan
- Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research CommissionIslamabadPakistan
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- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculteit Economische wetenschappen en BedrijfskundeAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
- Soil ScienceMoscow State Forest UniversityMoscowRussia
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ESMLaxenburgAustria
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Laso Bayas JC, Lesiv M, Waldner F, Schucknecht A, Duerauer M, See L, Fritz S, Fraisl D, Moorthy I, McCallum I, Perger C, Danylo O, Defourny P, Gallego J, Gilliams S, Akhtar IUH, Baishya SJ, Baruah M, Bungnamei K, Campos A, Changkakati T, Cipriani A, Das K, Das K, Das I, Davis KF, Hazarika P, Johnson BA, Malek Z, Molinari ME, Panging K, Pawe CK, Pérez-Hoyos A, Sahariah PK, Sahariah D, Saikia A, Saikia M, Schlesinger P, Seidacaru E, Singha K, Wilson JW. A global reference database of crowdsourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform. Sci Data 2017; 4:170136. [PMID: 28949323 PMCID: PMC5613736 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
A global reference data set on cropland was collected through a crowdsourcing campaign using the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing tool. The campaign lasted three weeks, with over 80 participants from around the world reviewing almost 36,000 sample units, focussing on cropland identification. For quality assessment purposes, two additional data sets are provided. The first is a control set of 1,793 sample locations validated by students trained in satellite image interpretation. This data set was used to assess the quality of the crowd as the campaign progressed. The second data set contains 60 expert validations for additional evaluation of the quality of the contributions. All data sets are split into two parts: the first part shows all areas classified as cropland and the second part shows cropland average per location and user. After further processing, the data presented here might be suitable to validate and compare medium and high resolution cropland maps generated using remote sensing. These could also be used to train classification algorithms for developing new maps of land cover and cropland extent.
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- European Commission-Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.,Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- European Commission-Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
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- Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.,Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Taguay, Córdoba, Argentina.,Instituto de Clima y Agua, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.,Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
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- The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.,The Nature Conservancy, New York, USA
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- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Japan
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- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- European Commission-Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
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- Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Guwahati, India
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- The Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica.,University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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