Comparison of Cropland Maps Derived from Land Cover Maps in Sub-Saharan Africa

This data repository provides the datasets associated with analysis conducted in Kerner et al. (2023), citation below. The CSV file `intercomparison-results.csv` gives a table metrics for each of 11 land cover maps (plus a majority vote ensemble of all maps) evaluated using the reference dataset for each of 8 countries (Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Malawi, Togo, and Zambia). The reference datasets are provided as zip files. To ensure these datasets can be used for independent evaluation and comparison between maps in the future, the reference datasets should ONLY be used for final, independent evaluation of data products/model outputs; they should NOT be used for training models, tuning hyperparameters, or any other decisions during model/map development. The provided tif files contain the consensus maps (sum of all 11 maps) used to compute consensus statistics in Kerner et al. (2023). Kerner, H., Nakalembe, C., Yang, A., Zvonkov, I., McWeeny, R., Tseng, G., and Becker-Reshef, I. (2023). How accurate are existing land cover maps for agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa? Under review.