dataset · England
Crop Map of England (CROME) 2024
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 Satel
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Evidence quality: 54.7
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- crop types (over 15 main crop types) · grassland · non-agricultural land cover (e.g. Woodland, Water Bodies, Fallow Land)
- Coverage docs-verified
- England · Sentinel-1 imagery January 2024 to August 2024 (crop year 2024)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- annually
- Formats docs-verified
- WFS · OGC API - Features · WMS · LYR (ArcGIS layer file) · XLSX (LUCODE lookup) · PDF (specification)
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open under the Open Government Licence v3.0; no authentication listed. Attribution required: © Rural Payments Agency copyright and/or database right 2024.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- England-wide crop and land-cover context for FRA or drainage catchment baselines · Agricultural land-use screening for BNG habitat baseline and constraints mapping · Crop-type inputs for diffuse pollution or nutrient risk screening on catchment projects
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · ecologists · hydrologists · flood consultants · planners
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Automated classification; not field-verified per cell (results checked against survey data and visually validated) · Single growing season (Jan–Aug 2024); no multi-year or later-year coverage in this entry · Optical-imagery crop typing is affected by cloud cover, which the radar-based method is used to address · Download format for the polygon data is not stated in the docs
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=2c6afc6a-ece4-4656-ac30-0ebaeb0459a3&fileName=CROME_LUCODE_LOOKUP.XLSX
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/0f52fe52-80f6-4aa7-bee2-afb9a320f631/crop-map-of-england-crome-2024
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.