LAND USE MAPPING
There are over 10 million acres of cropped land in California, representing substantial economic, resource use, and environmental significance for the state. Spatial data, including agricultural, urban, and managed wetland land use, consumptive use, irrigation method, permanent crop age, and recharge potential are essential for a number of regional and statewide regulatory, planning and resource management purposes. Accurate and timely spatial information is the foundation of these analyses and is vital to accurate decision making.
Land IQ has worked in cooperation with the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to complete the statewide crop mapping for 2014, 2016, and then for each hydrologic year beginning in 2018. The 2022 water year is currently in the classification process. The mapping categorizes nearly 15.4 million acres of land use into more than 50 crop and land use types with accuracies exceeding 98%. Field-by-field classification resulted in over 440,000 individually classified polygons with a minimum field size of 0.5-2.0 acres depending on crop type.
Statewide Land Use Mapping Downloads
2019 Water Year Mapping
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Includes up to four crop rotations, peak date of vegetative production and percentage of field cropped
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment
2018 Water Year Mapping
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Includes up to four crop rotations, peak date of vegetative production and percentage of field cropped
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment
2020 Water Year Mapping
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Includes up to four crop rotations, peak date of vegetative production and percentage of field cropped
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment
2021 Water Year Mapping - Provisional*
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Includes up to four crop rotations, peak date of vegetative production and percentage of field cropped
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment
*The current provisional release is intended to get land use information out to users quickly. The data has been QA/QC'd by Land IQ, but has not been carefully reviewed or edited by DWR. The final and official version of the WY 2021 land use dataset is planned for release by the first quarter of 2024.

2016 Main Season Mapping
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Includes main season (summer) mapping
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment
2014 Main Season Mapping
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Includes main season (summer) mapping
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GIS Geodatabase
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GIS Shapefile
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Accuracy Assessment