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Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) tillage, residue, and soil health practice dataset

CTIC has partnered with Applied GeoSolutions and The Nature Conservancy on the development, testing and application of the Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS), an automated system to map tillage, residue cover, winter cover, and soil health practices using remote sensing data. While OpTIS calculations are performed at the farm-field scale using publicly available data, the privacy of individual producers is fully protected by reporting only spatially-aggregated results at regional and watershed scales. OpTIS-based data are currently available for the years 2005 through 2018 for the US Corn Belt, including all of Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, as well as parts of: Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) has been developed by Applied GeoSolutions (AGS) and the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) as a method for the automated use of remote sensing (satellite-based) data to monitor conservation practices in agricultural systems, including various forms of reduced tillage and the planting of winter cover crops. While the OpTIS calculations are performed and validated at the farm-field scale, the privacy of individual producers is fully protected by distributing only spatially-aggregated results – at the county and watershed (8-digit HUC) scale.

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Modified
2019-10-23
Release Date
2019-10-23
Identifier
5a7ef577-ded7-4ef9-88f7-8cc9d4bc4990
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area
POLYGON ((-80.57373046875 40.323514030311, -82.59521484375 38.386880569847, -84.79248046875 39.072511469224, -86.41845703125 38.04160203158, -87.82470703125 37.868349033059, -88.96728515625 37.066135940743, -89.7802734375 36.124564748133, -98.2177734375 36.124564748133, -101.14013671875 41.584634011883, -101.09619140625 45.623642598278, -94.50439453125 46.326068311713, -88.74755859375 45.991237199238))
Publisher
Ag Data Commons
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location
US Corn Belt: all of Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, as well as parts of Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
Temporal Coverage
January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2018
License
Contact Name
Zook, Kathryn
Contact Email
Public Access Level
Public