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GFSAD30 (NASA / USGS MEaSUREs)

NASA's global cropland baseline at 30m. Public domain, no restrictions.

What this is

GFSAD30 is a NASA / USGS MEaSUREs product mapping global cropland extent for a 2015 baseline from Landsat. Distributed as regional GeoTIFF tiles via NASA Earthdata (login required). No restrictions on use, sale, or redistribution.

Why we surface it

Public-domain global cropland from NASA — clean for any downstream use including AI training. A stable baseline when comparing to current imagery, or a second opinion alongside GLAD or WorldCereal.

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Redistribute the data
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Republish a derivative
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Build into a private product
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

○ Planned

Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.

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