Cropland by Continent

Figure 4. Cropland area % by Continent as a % of the total net cropland area of the world (1.873 billion hectares). Percentage cropland areas by continent for the nominal year 2015, derived using Landsat 30-m time-series data, machine learning algorithms (e.g., Random Forest, support vector machines, recurssive heirarchical segmentation), and petabyte-scale big-data computing on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud. Croplands as percentage of the total global cropland area (1.873 billion hectares). The product is produced for the NASA and USGS funded global food security-support analysis data @ 30-m (GFSAD30). For further details visit:

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