Table 2 Overview of the considered data to calculate the potentially cultivable land and the potentially available cropland.

From: Global inventory of suitable, cultivable and available cropland under different scenarios and policies

Dataset

Reference

Spatial resolution

Reference Year(s)

Suitability

Zabel, F. Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5982577 (2022)29, Zabel et al. 201432, Cronin et al. 202031

30 arc-seconds (~1 km)

1980–2009

2010–2039

2040–2069

2070–2099

ESA CCI land cover classification

ESA. Land Cover CCI Product User Guide Version 2. Tech. Rep. (2017). Available at: https://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/download/ESACCI-LC-Ph2-PUGv2_2.0.pdf38

300 m

2010

Global Man-made Impervious Surface

Brown de Colstoun, E. C., C. Huang, P. Wang, J. C. Tilton, B. Tan. J. Phillips, S. Niemczura, P.-Y. Ling, and R. E. Wolfe. 2017. Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset from Landsat. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4P55KKF. Accessed 20 05 202035

30 m

2010

Protected areas

IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2019), The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [On-line], [05/2019]. Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net36

Vectors

2019

HIstoric Land Dynamics Assessment + (HILDA+)

Winkler, Karina; Fuchs, Richard; Rounsevell, Mark D A; Herold, Martin (2020): HILDA+ Global Land Use Change between 1960 and 2019. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921846

0.00998837° (~1 km)

2010