FLAT: Fine-scale Land Allocation Tool

By Jingyu Song1, Michael S Delgado1, Paul V. Preckel, Shandian Zhe1, Ian James Campbell1, Lan Zhao1, Carol Song1

1. Purdue University

Open access user interface FLAT: designed for fine-scale global land use estimation, display, and comparison.

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Version 2.0 - published on 06 Oct 2016

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Abstract

The Fine-scale Land Allocation Tool, FLAT, is an interface developed based on an econometric framework that uses pixel level (e.g., 5 arc-minute) independent variables (agronomic data in the examples installed with the tool) and aggregate dependent variables (land use statistics at the regional level in the examples) to develop predictions of the dependent variables (cropland allocations in the examples) at the pixel level (Song et al., 2016).

FLAT is an open source tool. Users can upload their own data files of independent and dependent variables and GAMS script that implements an estimation approach, or use the default datasets and scripts. Default datasets include state/province level cropland harvested area data for maize, soybeans, and wheat, and pixel level land attributes data for the Americas. The default models predict cropland area at the 5 arc-minute pixel level for the Americas. All default datasets, programming scripts, and result files can be downloaded. FLAT provides mapping options so that the users can view and download the predicted crop fractions shown on a map by selecting the region and crop of interest.  

Credits

The authors are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions from Thomas Hertel. FLAT development is supported in part by USDA grant Agreement #58300010058 and Purdue grant #105651.

References

Song, J., Delgado, M. S., Preckel, P. V., and Villoria, N. B. (2016). “Pixel Level Cropland Allocation and the Marginal Impacts of Biophysical Factors,” under review.

Graphical user interface was created by:

Jingyu Song, Michael S. Delgado, Paul V. Preckel, Shandian Zhe, Ian J. Campbell, Lan Zhao, Carol Song. (2016). “FLAT in the Cloud,” https://mygeohub..org/resources/flat

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Jingyu Song, Michael S. Delgado, Paul V. Preckel, Shandian Zhe, Ian J. Campbell, Lan Zhao, Carol Song. (2016).

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  • Jingyu Song; Michael S Delgado; Paul V. Preckel; Shandian Zhe; Ian James Campbell; Lan Zhao; Carol Song (2016), "FLAT: Fine-scale Land Allocation Tool," https://mygeohub.org/resources/flat.

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