Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022

Published by:: Rural Payments Agency
Last updated:: 26 August 2025
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Summary

The Crop Map of England (CROME) is a polygon vector dataset mainly containing the crop types of England. The dataset contains approximately 32 million hexagonal cells classifying England into over 15 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 Radar and Sentinel-2 Optical Satellite images during the period late October 2021 – September 2022. 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. The data has been split into the Ordnance Survey Ceremonial Counties and each county is given a three letter code. Please refer to the CROME specification document to see which county each CODE label represents. Attribution statement: © Rural Payments Agency copyright and/or database right 2023. All rights reserved.

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Download Crop_Map_of_England_(CROME)_2022_Web_Feature_Service_(WFS) , Format: N/A, Dataset: Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download Crop_Map_of_England_(CROME)_2022_Web_Map_Service_(WMS) , Format: N/A, Dataset: Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download Crop_Map_of_England_(CROME)_2022 , Format: N/A, Dataset: Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download RPA CROME_Specification_v14.pdf , Format: PDF, Dataset: Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022	PDF	26 August 2025	Not available
Download CROME_LUCODE_LOOKUP.XLSX , Format: XLSX, Dataset: Crop Map of England (CROME) 2022	XLSX	26 August 2025	Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2025-07-28
Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID: cc389fe9-f026-4b20-a80f-f424ee833ea6
Extent: Latitude: 55.816° to °; Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date: 2023-09-22 (creation); 2023-09-22 (revision)
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Responsible party: Rural Payments Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
Metadata language: eng
Source Metadata: XML; HTML

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