A web platform was developed for an automatic district-scale satellite data acquisition process and to be made available for interested parties in open access, as it does not require any knowledge of remote sensing data acquisition and processing. The web platform requires the user to select the area of interest and type of the boundary for satellite data extraction. The advantage of this platform is the ability to extract the satellite data for only cropland areas by excluding other land use/cover types in the district.

Note: If the selected district does not have cropland areas, you will receive an error "Error generating chart: No properties to chart" instead of graph.

 (Video tutorial will be available soon)

The croplands masked using land cover and use product MODIS-MCD12Q1 V6, which provides yearly information on global land cover types since 2001 (Friedl and Sulla-Menashe, 2019). In our study, we used the sub-model “Annual International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) classification”. As cropland, we merged the layers 12 and 14 in order to capture all possible croplands in the selected areas. All years since 2001 until 2020 were combined in order to produce a single mask for croplands.

*Satellite Data sources:

• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra Vegetation Indices (MOD13Q1) Version 6, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Enhanced Vegetation Index (band: NDVI and EVI), 16 days, 250 meter - Details are provided at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod13q1v006/ 

• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra Net Evapotranspiration (MOD16A2) Version 6, Total evapotranspiration (band: ET), 8 days, 500 meter - Details are provided at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod16a2v006/ 

• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (MOD11A1) Version 6, Land Surface Temperature  (band: LST), daily, 1000 meter - Details are provided at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod11a1v006/ 

• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra Leaf Area Index/FPAR (MOD15A2H) Version 6, Leaf Area Index (band: Lai), 8 days, 500 meter - Details are provided at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod15a2hv006/ 

• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Type Yearly Global (MCD12Q1) Version 6, Annual International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) classification (band: LC_Type1), annual, 500 meter - Details are provided at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd12q1v006/ 

• Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP), Precipitation (band: hourlyPrecipRateGC), daily, 10 km - Details are provided at http://www.gportal.jaxa.jp/  

• Climate Hazards center InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS), Precipitation (band: precipitation ), daily, 5 km - Details are provided at https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps  

• Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), Temperature (band: Tair_f_inst ), daily, 25 km - Details are provided at https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/  

This tool has been developed for scientific purposes within the project "KlimALEZ – Increasing climate resilience via agricultural insurance – Innovation transfer for sustainable rural development in Central Asia" implemented by Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) and funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany.