Table 1 Input options, output products, and features of the geocommunication application. The application is available online at https://cropniche.cartoscience.com or https://cartoscience.users.earthengine.app/view/crop-niche.
User input | Geospatial data layers | Queried information |
|---|---|---|
Data bounds (1) Country, user-defined region (decimal degrees centroid and buffer distance), or quasi-global (tropics, 50°N–50°S) Temporal aggregations (2) Range of years (yyyy) and (3) crop growth season duration in months/days (MM-dd) Crop phenological requirements (4) FAO ECOCROP parameters or (5) user-defined rainfall ranges during growth season and (6) temperature ranges during growth season | Suitability characterization (1) Temperature, rainfall, combined, and combined masked to agriculture Boolean suitability (2) Combined, temperature, and rainfall Climate and land data (3) Average seasonal temperature, average seasonal rainfall amount, average seasonal NDVI, and agricultural land-use | Soil and terrain Average seasonal rainfall, average temperature, average NDVI, organic carbon, bulk density, pH in H2O, soil water content at 33 kPa, sand/silt/clay fractions, biome and taxonomy classifications, elevation, and slope Time-series charts Both pixel and regional temperature, rainfall, and NDVI trends Data extraction Time-series seasonal temperature, rainfall, and NDVI at the pixel and regional levels |
