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. 2016 Dec 20;3:160118. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.118

Table 1. Data sets used for irrigated area mapping as input and validation.

Data Source Spatio-temporal resolution Remarks
MODIS-NDVI mrtweb.cr.usgs.gov 250 m, 16 day composite To Develop Crop Mask, VCI threshold for irrigation
Crop Calendar nfsm.gov.in/nfmis/RPT/CalenderReport.aspx Federal state wise, Seasonal(Kharif, Rabi and Zaid) To segregate different crop based on season
Agroecological Zones www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0257e/A0257E02.htm 1:5172413 Scale, 20 Zones To Separate regions with different climate, soil type and crop rotation
Land Use Land Cover -IRS—P6 AWiFS bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan_links.php 56 Meter To remove classes other than Crop
SRTM—DEM earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ 90 Meter To exclude areas with greater than 20%
DES—Irrigation eands.dacnet.nic.in/ Federal state and country wise irrigated area data for the period of 2000–2012 For validation with obtained irrigation Data
IWMI—Irrigation data waterdata.iwmi.org/applications/irri_area/ 250 m, 2000 and 2010 For comparison with obtained irrigation Data
Landsat −7 ETM + earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ 30 Meter To show ground condition of growing season