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Repartitioning Crop Data Layer & US Census into H3 hexagons

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Max Lenormand
Max Lenormand
Developer Advocate @ Fused
Sina Kashuk
Sina Kashuk
CEO @ Fused

Fused has repartitioned the USDA Crop Data Layer and US Census into H3 hexagons.

These 2 datasets are both available on Source Cooperative for anyone to use, free of charge!

Source coop CDL hex

What are these datasets?​

We've taken 2 popular datasets and made them available in H3 Hexagons, this provides a number of benefits:

  • Much faster ability to aggregate data at different scales
  • A simple way to join datasets together (as they, and any other H3 tiled dataset are using the same grid)

You can read more about H3 Indexes on the dedicated page.

We're providing:

  1. Crop Data Layer (from USDA CroplandCros)
  • Available for [2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024]
  • Available in hex7 and hex8 resolutions
  1. US Census (from data.census.gov)
  • Available for 2020
  • Available in hex7 and hex8 resolutions

Using these datasets​

These datasets are completely free for anyone to use, with or without Fused. To showcase what's possible we have made a public Fused UDF anyone can use without an account to explore these.

CDL from source udf

You can try it here without any account.

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