EuroCrops

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EuroCrops is a dataset collection combining all publicly available self-declared crop reporting datasets from countries of the European Union.

The raw data obtained from the countries does not come in a unified, machine-readable taxonomy. We, therefore, developed a new Hierarchical Crop and Agriculture Taxonomy (HCAT) that harmonises all declared crops across the European Union. In the shapefiles you'll find these as additional attributes:

HCAT Attribute Name Explanation 

EC_trans_n: The original crop name translated into English 

EC_hcat_n: The machine-readable HCAT name of the crop 

EC_hcat_c: The 10-digit HCAT code indicating the hierarchy of the crop

Participating countries

Find detailed information for all countries of the European Union in our GitHub Wiki, especially the countries represented in EuroCrops:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Spain
• Finland
• France
• Ireland
• Lithuania
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Romania
• Sweden
• Slovenia
• Slovakia

Please also reference the countries' dependent source in case you're using their data.

Changelog

• Version 11: Added whole of Spain, Finland, Ireland and Wallonia's shape/gpkg and mapping files. Fixed translation and mapping errors. Remapped some crops for consistency across countries. Updated the Czech shape files with the official version that comes with CRS. A new HCAT version is planned so this will probably be the last update using HCAT3.
• Version 10: Added Brandenburg area of Germany and Czech Republic shape and mapping files. Harmonized Germany-wide mapping under de.csv, issues #23 #27
• Version 9: Removed hidden files and added country mapping.
• Version 8: Updated HCAT3 (not downwards compatible): to merge spring and summer cereals, with the exception of unspecified_cereals due the presence of three seasons of cereal in Lithuania. Fixed wayward coordinates in France and wrong class mappings in NL. Added Portugal.  issue #26
• Version 7: Introduced HCAT3 (not downwards compatible): to merge spring and summer wheat, fix typos and extra z dimensions - issues #11 #13 #20 #21 #22
• Version 6: Updates to HCAT (downwards compatible) and fix FR and NL mappings - Pull request #18
• Version 5: Fix wrong year for NL - Pull request #16
• Version 4: Add preview of DE-NRW attribute table for zenodo (no dataset changes)
• Version 3: Fix wrong class mappings in NL and SK - Pull request #10 issues #7 and #9
• Version 2: Fix wrong class mappings in DK - Pull request #5
• Version 1: Initial publication