IWMIHQ/limpopo_cropland_10m

Limpopo Cropland 10m

Annual cropland extent mask at 10 m for the Limpopo basin. Each year is the union of the land-cover products that actually cover that year -- no product is carried into years it does not represent -- so the inputs differ from year to year and are recorded on every dataset as crop:sources. Tuned for smallholder recall rather than high-confidence agreement. Coverage and method vary by dataset; check crop:sources before comparing years.

• Region not declared
• Period see the STAC collection below
• Theme Cropland & land use
• Grid EPSG:4326, 4149 x 3989 at 10.000000000 deg (~1113200 m)
• Bands 1
• Files 266 Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFFs under data/, keeping their source filenames, which encode the year and, where the product is tiled, the tile

Bands

Band	Type	Units	Nodata
cropland	uint8	1	255

Read it

These are COGs, so GDAL reads them in place over HTTP -- no full download, and a windowed read fetches only the bytes it needs:

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_url
import rasterio

url = hf_hub_url("IWMIHQ/limpopo_cropland_10m", "data/cropland_aoi_2019.tif", repo_type="dataset")
with rasterio.open(url) as src:
    print(src.width, src.height, src.crs, src.nodata)
    patch = src.read(1, window=((0, 256), (0, 256)))

Or pull the whole repo:

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
path = snapshot_download("IWMIHQ/limpopo_cropland_10m", repo_type="dataset")

Read this before using it

The product is defined for the whole Limpopo basin but what is indexed covers only the Middle Olifants AOI, about 0.4% of it -- a query expecting basin coverage returns nothing outside that box, silently. Inputs also differ from year to year and three of the five are near-static, so read a year-on-year difference as partly method, not only ground change.

Provenance

Produced by IWMI from Sentinel-2 imagery and published through IWMI's Open Data Cube.

The same product is indexed in IWMI's Open Data Cube, which is the route to its footprint, time extent and band metadata as STAC:

https://explorer-production-0070.up.railway.app/stac/collections/limpopo_cropland_10m

Citation

International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Limpopo Cropland 10m. Published via the IWMI Open Data Cube. Licence CC-BY-4.0.

@misc{iwmi_limpopo_cropland_10m,
  title        = {Limpopo Cropland 10m},
  author       = {International Water Management Institute},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face Hub, IWMIHQ/limpopo_cropland_10m},
  note         = {Derived from IWMI Africa GeoPortal services; see Provenance},
  year         = {2026}
}