ABSTRACT
Increases in populations have created an increasing demand for food crops while increases in demand for biofuels have created an increase in demand for fuel crops. What has not increased is the amount of croplands and their productivity. These and many other factors such as decreasing water resources in a changing climate have created a crisis like
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section I: Background and History of Global Irrigated Area Maps (GIAM)
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Section II: Global Irrigated Area Mapping (GIAM) Using Remote Sensing
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Section III: GIAM Mapping Section for Selected Global Regions
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Section IV: Evapotranspiration Models, Water Use, and Irrigated Areas
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Section V: Rain-Fed Cropland Areas of the World
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Section VI: Methods of Mapping Croplands Using Remote Sensing
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Section VII: Accuracies and Errors
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Section VIII: Way Forward in Mapping Global Irrigated and Rain-Fed Croplands
