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[process] MapSPAM Consider Suitability

"We estimate the crop suitable area (SuitArea) from GAEZv3.0 to consider the spatially varied potential suitability for different crops in terms of different thermal, moisture, and soil requirements as an allocating parameter."
Yu, Qiangyi; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; Ru, Yating; Joglekar, Alison K. B.; Fritz, Steffen et al. (2020): A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps. In: Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12 (4), S. 3545–3572. DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-3545-2020.

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Field	Value
Identifier	consider-suitability
Documentation
Used GAEZ Global Agro-ecological Zones v3.0
Generated MapSPAM SuitArea
Category	Statistics
Last Updated	October 7, 2021, 11:49 (UTC)
Created	July 27, 2021, 15:13 (UTC)