Assessing Marginal Land Availability Based on Land Use Change Information in the Contiguous United States

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Geospatial, Modeling

Citation

Jiang, C., Guan, K., Khanna, M., Chen, L., Peng, J. Sept. 7, 2022. Data from “Assessing Marginal Land Availability Based on Land Use Change Information in the Contiguous United States.” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-6395937_V1.

Overview

Economically marginal land distribution with confidence (yellow) and uncertainty (blue) across the CONUS.

The availability of economically marginal land for energy crops is identified using the Cropland Data Layer and other soil, wind, climate data resources. Permanent grassland, cropland and the estimated productivity are also identified. All data are recognized on a 30m spatial resolution across the contiguous United States.

Data

Marginal Land Data (7.8 GB)

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