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Crop Map of England (CROME) 2016 - Complete

Publisher
Rural Payments Agency
Updated
26 August 2025
Topic
Not set

Summary

The Crop Map of England (CROME) Complete 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: © Rural Payments Agency

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
CropMapOfEngland2016_WMS 26/8/2025
CropMapOfEngland2016_download 26/8/2025
CropMapOfEngland2016-FGDB.zip ZIP 26/8/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
28 July 2025
Harvest GUID
9ebadb9c-4aa7-41e2-8164-e9574a52526f
Extent (Latitude)
55.816° to 49.943°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date (creation)
2017-08-24
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Access constraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Responsible party
Rural Payments Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

Contact

open.data@rpa.gov.uk

open.data@rpa.gsi.gov.uk

Licence information

Open Government Licence