Table 1 Covariates used in the study.

From: Crop suitability analysis for the coastal region of India through fusion of remote sensing, geospatial analysis and multi-criteria decision making

Dataset

Variables

Source of data

Spatial resolution/scale

SRTM DEM

Elevation, Slope

https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/srtmdata/

90 m

Soil Data

Soil depth, soil drainage

Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning (ICAR-NBSS&LUP), Nagpur, India

1:50,000

SoilGrids

Soil pH, SOC, Soil texture

https://soilgrids.org

250 m

WorldClim

Temperature (1990–2018)

https://www.worldclim.org

2.5 min

IMD

Rainfall (1901–2018)

https://www.imdpune.gov.in/lrfindex.php

0.25°

ESRI 2022 Land Cover

LULC

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/landcover/

10 m

  1. SRTM DEM, shuttle radar topography mission-digital elevation model; IMD, India Meteorological Department; ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute.