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LGRIP30_L2_IRRI·v002·dataset

Where farmland is irrigated worldwide (30 m)

Landsat-Derived Global Irrigated-Cropland Product L2 2020 30 m V002
land NASA LPCLOUD Level 2 GeoTIFF
In plain English

What it measures. A high-resolution (30-meter) map showing which farmland is irrigated versus rain-fed, and whether irrigated fields grow one crop, two crops, or continuous crops per year. It also marks water bodies.

How it's made. Produced from time-series Landsat 8 imagery spanning 2019-2021 to represent the year 2020, with the data delivered as map tiles covering 10-degree areas.

How & where you'd use it. Supports food and water security work by showing where and how intensively land is irrigated. Note: this version currently covers only the continental United States, with the rest of the world to be added later.

What's measured

AGRICULTURE › AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE › CROP/PLANT YIELDSLAND SURFACE › LAND USE/LAND COVER › LAND USE CLASSESLAND SURFACE › LANDSCAPE › LANDSCAPE PATTERNS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2019-01-01 → 2021-12-31
  • Measured byLANDSAT-8 (OLI)
  • Processing levelLevel 2
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsGeoTIFF
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

The Landsat-Derived Global Irrigated-Cropland Product Level 2 2020 (LGRIP30_L2_IRRI) Version 2 data provides high-resolution, 30 meter (m) cropland data to assist and address food and water security issues of the twenty-first century. As an extension of the Global Food Security-support Analysis Data ([GFSAD](https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-geographic-science-center/science/global-food-security-support-analysis-data-30-m)) project, LGRIP_L2_IRRI V2 maps agricultural lands by dividing them into irrigated single crop, double crop, and continuous croplands, and calculates applicable cropland areas across the globe. LGRIP data are produced using Landsat 8 time-series satellite sensor data for the 2019 through 2021 time period to create a nominal 2020 product. Each LGRIP L2 Irrigated 30 m resolution GeoTIFF file contains a layer that identifies areas of irrigated cropland (cropland that had at least one irrigation during the crop growing period) divided into single, double, and continuous crop classifications, non-irrigated land (rainfed cropland and areas not classified as cropland), and water bodies over a 10° by 10° area, as well as an accuracy assessment of the product. A low-resolution browse image is also included. Currently, LGRIP30 V2 products only contain data for the conterminous United States (CONUS). LGRIP30 V2 data covering the rest of the globe will be added at a later date.

Get the data

lgrip30_l2_irri_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="LGRIP30_L2_IRRI",
    version="002",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from LPCLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.