Crop Mask Title:
Global map of oil palm plantations

Coverage:
Global

Spatial resolution:
10-meters

Satellites:
Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 half-year composites

Year:
2019

Version:
Version 1 (v1)

Organization:
BIOPAMA (Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management) programme

Resource Contact:
Zoltan Szantoi zoltszan@gmail.com European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 20127 Ispra, Italy

Resource Abstract:
We present a map of closed-canopy oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations by typology (industrial versus smallholder plantations) at the global scale and with unprecedented detail (10 m resolution) for the year 2019.

Resource Classification Categories:
The images have a spatial resolution of 10 meters and contain three classes: [1] Industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations, [2] Smallholder closed-canopy oil palm plantations, and [3] other land covers/uses that are not closed canopy oil palm.

Reprocessing for MODIS-GLAM (250-meter) applications:
The 10-m cropland was resampled to 250-meters spatial resolution for cropland (palm oil) data drilling on MODIS-GLAM. The resampling steps follow:

Pixels with class values of 1 and 2 were set to a binary value of 1, and pixels with class values of 3 were set to zero.
Above binary data set was resampled by nearest neighbor technique from native 10 to 250-meters cell size for use on USDA/NASA GLAM.

Resource URL:
Documentation and data download links are available at: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1211/2021/essd-13-1211-2021.html

Download URL:
High resolution global industrial and smallholder oil palm map for 2019 at 10m spatial resolution can be downloaded at: https://zenodo.org/record/4473715 https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1211/2021/essd-13-1211-2021-assets.html

Resource Citations:
Adrià, Descals, Serge, Wich, Erik, Meijaard, David, Gaveau, Stephen, Peedell, & Zoltan, Szantoi. 2021. High resolution global industrial and smallholder oil palm map for 2019 (Version v1), https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1211/2021/

Descals, A., Wich, S., Meijaard, E., Gaveau, D. L. A., Peedell, S., and Szantoi, Z. 2021. High-resolution global map of smallholder and industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1211–1231, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1211-2021, 2021.