Table 1 Input data.

From: A Chinese soil conservation dataset preventing soil water erosion from 1992 to 2019

Data name

Spatial resolution

Format

Temporal period

Source

NASA SRTM digital elevation

30 m

grid

Static (2000)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model (SRTM DEM) data

Rainfall data

Station

txt

Daily 1992–2019

China Meteorological Data Service Centre (CMDC) (http://data.cma.cn/en)

Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

8 km

tiff

Half-monthly 1992–2015

Global Agricultural Monitoring System (GIMMS) AVHRR NDVI3g datasets

0.05°

tiff

Half-monthly 2016–2019

Terra MODIS NDVI data (MOD13C2 V6)

Land temperature

0.5°

tiff

Monthly 1992–2019

Climatic Research Unit (CRU TS)

Land cover

300 m

tiff

Annual 1992–2019

European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (ESA CCI LC)

Soli properties

250 m

tiff

Static

International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) (http://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/chi/catalog.search;jsessionid=A887E5B4)

Sown areas of major farm crops

Provincial

csv

Annual 1992–2019

National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) Database (https://data.stats.gov.cn)