Identification

Title

Crop Map of England (CROME) 2016 - South West

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The Crop Map of England (CROME) South West is a polygon vector dataset mainly containing the crop types of England. The dataset contains approximately 32 million hexagonal cells classifying England into over 20 main crop types, grassland, and non-agricultural land covers, such as Woodland, Water Bodies, Fallow Land and other non-agricultural land covers. The classification was created automatically using supervised classification (Random Forest Classification) from the combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images during the period late January 2016 – August 2016. The dataset was created to aid the classification of crop types from optical imagery, which can be affected by cloud cover. The results were checked against survey data collected by field inspectors and visually validated. refer to the CROME specification document Attribution statement:

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=RPA/CropMapOfEngland2016SouthWest&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: CropMapOfEngland2016SouthWest_Download

description: Crop Map of England 2016 (South West) Download

Unique resource identifier

code

17f1f7c2-0c92-4ec1-86ea-b4d67dbeb2cf

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

Land cover

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-01-01

End position

2016-08-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2017-08-30

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The sources for crop classification are satellite images from the Sentinel constellation. A combination of radar and multispectral imagery from Sentinel sensors was used for automatic classification.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Proprietary format | ESRI File based Geodatabase (GDB)

version of format

N/A

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Rural Payments Agency

email address

open.rpa@rpa.gov.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rural-payments-agency

description: Rural Payments Agency Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Rural Payments Agency

email address

open.rpa@rpa.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-19

Metadata language