The first 500-meter, long-term winter wheat grain protein content dataset for China from multi-source data

In China, the demand for precise perception of wheat Grain Protein Content (GPC) has gained increased urgency, driven by the rising demands in the food consumption market and intensifying international market competition. However, due to the lack of extensive, prolonged high-resolution benchmark data, previous GPC studies have primarily focused on experimental fields, small geographic units, and limited temporal scopes. Additionally, the diversified geographical landscape in China introduces spatiotemporal heterogeneity and intricacy to the influence of wheat GPC, further amplifying the challenges of large-scale GPC estimation. To address this challenge and the data gap, the first 500-meter spatial resolution, long-term winter wheat dataset covering major planting regions in China (CNWheatGPC-500) was created by integrating multi-source data from ERA5 and MODIS.