A cropland cover dataset for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River over the past millennium

We developed a new gridding allocation model for croplands with unequal weight factors and reconstructed 58 time-point cropland cover maps at a 10-km resolution for the past millennium in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China. The cropland dataset can be used to model past climate change, estimate carbon emissions, assess human-activity-induced ecological effects, and improve global historical land use scenarios.