Product details

UID	841
Name	High Resolution Layer - Crop types
Acronym	CTY
Description	Provides at pan-European level a classification of cropland into one of the 19 crop type classes at a spatial resolution of 10 m and a MMU of 0.25 ha for the reference years 2017-2023.
Note
Status	Operational
Group	PLC High Resolution Layers
Area	Europe
Component	Land Cover and Land Use Mapping
Service	Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Entrusted Entities	European Environment Agency Joint Research Centre
Created on	May 10, 2024, 12:40 p.m.
Last updated on	Dec. 2, 2025, 7:32 a.m.

UID	Requirement	Level of definition	Relevant for	Criticality	Barriers	Note	Created on	Last updated on
219	Orthoimagery - Very High Resolution - Up-to-date - Homogenous	Firm	Calibration and validation	Desirable	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	Used for complementing the data base for training and testing samples, for calibration and validation	May 23, 2024, 8:41 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:11 p.m.
35	Administrative Boundaries	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Costs	Used for data clipping	May 23, 2024, 8:28 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:21 p.m.
213	Digital Elevation Model	Firm	Calibration and validation	Essential	Accuracy Costs Data policy Resolution	DEM is used to derive altitude and slope at the pixel level, for which resampling to the Sentinel-2 10m grid is performed.	May 23, 2024, 8:45 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:11 p.m.
487	Land Use	Firm	Calibration and validation	Essential	Accuracy Availability Coverage Resolution Update Frequency	Reference data for calibration and validation	May 23, 2024, 8:57 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
223	Phenological observations	Reasonable	Calibration and validation	Desirable	Availability Coverage	Derivation of phenology information for selection of satellite scenes.	May 27, 2024, 1:37 p.m.	May 27, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
146	Land Cover	Firm	Calibration and validation	Essential	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	Land cover reference data needed for calibration and validation	May 23, 2024, 8:51 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.