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Large green circles in Australia what crop is this?

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A British Broadcasting radio prog on farming made me look at this area -33.7117911, 148.584271 I found large green circle, I suspect they may have some sort of huge rotating irrigation system. How should they be mapped?alt text

asked 24 Jan '21, 07:29

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andy mackey
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A bit of research they seem to be crops irrigated with one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4ZDNud5i4

(24 Jan '21, 08:17) andy mackey

mechanics explainedhttp://blog.irrigation.education/blog/how-a-center-pivot-works

(24 Jan '21, 09:00) andy mackey

I couldn't get my link to work. But Google Utube should do the job. Center Pivot Irrigation Systems

(24 Jan '21, 09:09) andy mackey

One Answer:

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There's irrigation=pivot (~19k), more than irrigated=center_pivot (~150).

answered 24 Jan '21, 09:16

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edited 24 Jan '21, 09:18

I think the circles will probably be seasonal, but in a this climate maybe a continual rotation ( no pun) of crops might be grown so maybe it should just mapped as arable land.

(24 Jan '21, 14:56) andy mackey

Source code available on GitHub .