CCD-Rice: A paddy rice distribution dataset in China from 1990 to 2016 at 30 m resolution

This dataset is a 30 resolution rice distribution dataset in China from 1990 to 2016, covering 25 provincial administrative regions in mainland China. The data file format is GeoTIFFF and the spatial reference is WGS84 (EPSG:4326), one file per year, and the file name format is CCD-Rice-China-{year}-v{version}.tif. The dataset is based on Landsat imagery, and is produced using Random Forest. Based on 394,753 validation samples, the overall accuracy of the distribution maps in each provincial administrative region averaged 89.61 %. Compared with 20,759 county-level statistical data, the coefficient of determination (R2) of single- and double-season rice in each year averaged 0.85 and 0.78, respectively.classification system:0: non-rice1: single-season rice2: double-season ricev1.1: Fix error caused by the statistics in Jiangxi Province.