GMIA Global Map of Irrigation Areas v5.0 (GeoKur CKAN)
Gridded 5-arc-minute global map of area equipped for irrigation, including percentages irrigated with groundwater, surface water, and non-conventional sources. Hosted as a CKAN dataset with downloadable shapefile and ASCII grids.
geokur-dmp.geo.tu-dresden.de
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research Institute
- Last updated
- 2021
What's inside
- Irrigated area
- Groundwater irrigation
- Gridded raster
- Land use
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: Irrigated area
- 02
Water accounting
Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.
- 03
Trend hotspots
Find where water tables are falling year after year.
Because it has: Groundwater irrigation
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.
- 03
Gap filling
Rebuild missing well readings from neighbours, rainfall and season.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
CKAN API (geokur-dmp.geo.tu-dresden.de) for dataset/resource metadata and downloads
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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