Table 4 The format and field descriptions of data records containing all grid cells marked as cropland.

From: A global reference database of crowdsourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform

Variable

Type

Description

Example

location_id

Numeric, continuous

Unique number identifying each location in the campaign.

47286

userid

Numeric, continuous

Numeric field used to uniquely identify participants/users

11182

sub_id

Numeric, continuous

Sequentially assigned number identifying every submission done in the system

383725

comment

Text

Comments entered by the participant

Apparent pastures

timestamp

Date and time

Exact time and date when the submission was entered into the system

2016-09-16 13:20:19

used_gmaps

Yes=‘t’

No=‘f’

Registers whether the participant was viewing the Google background imagery when the submission was done

t

viewed_ge

Yes=‘t’

No=‘f’

Registers whether the participant pressed the button labelled View in Google Earth

f

skip_reason

Numeric, categorical

Registers whether the participant did not skip the point (Skip=0), skipped the point and used the reason ‘no img. available/ low resolution/ clouds’ (Skip=1), or skipped the point and used the reason ‘too difficult’ (Skip=2)

0

sub_item_id

Numeric, continuous

Unique identifier of each grid cell classified as cropland at a given location by a given user

10579829

sub_item_x

Numeric, continuous

Longitude of each grid cell centroid inside a frame/location (decimal degrees)

30.95357144

sub_item_y

Numeric, continuous

Latitude of each grid cell centroid inside a frame/location (decimal degrees)

−20.75119048