Managed Grasslands Mask

Definition

A binary map of land seasonally or annually sown with grasses or herbaceous forage for grazing and/or mowing. If there is no sowing or harvesting for more than one year, then the lands are considered rangelands.

GEOGLAM Agriculture Indicator Category

Land Use

Agricultural Land Includes or is Indicated by

Managed grasslands

EAV Stewards

Juan Pablo Guerschman

Sven Gilliams

Within Season Requirements:

Application or Policy Supported	Related Variables	Frequency of Update	Spatial Unit
Policy areas supported include: Land cover/use state & change; SDG 2; UNFCCC Greenhouse gas reporting Farm support programs Information for commodity markets Early warning for food security Changes in the agricultural landscape Land degradation	Agriculture Mask (current year); aboveground biomass Agriculture Mask (prior year)	Seasonally updated. Updates occur at the end of the major growing season, so that changes can be detected over multiple growing seasons)	Field Scale

Application or Policy Supported

Frequency of Update

Spatial Unit

Policy areas supported include: Land cover/use state & change; SDG 2; UNFCCC

Greenhouse gas reporting
Farm support programs
Information for commodity markets
Early warning for food security
Changes in the agricultural landscape
Land degradation

Seasonally updated. Updates occur at the end of the major growing season, so that changes can be detected over multiple growing seasons)

Field Scale