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Temporary Dataset Download: Cover Crops across Europe

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14-April-2026

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  1. The data provided has been prepared for use by internal research activities in the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra in collaboration with the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), INRAE, Paris-Saclay University. This work has been done in the context of the Collaborative Doctoral Partneship between JRC and LSCE and contributes to the objectives of the  EU Soil Observatory addressing the soil erosion in relation to land degradation, climate change and food security.
  2. The data are the result of JRC research activities and are primarily made available for further research. The JRC does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error, missing data or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use. The JRC agrees to provide the data free of charge but is not bound to justify the content and values contained in the databases.
  3. The permission to use the data specified above is granted on condition that, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES are these data passed to third parties. They can be used for any purpose, including commercial gain.
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Important notice: This dataset includes the median, standard deviation, 5th and 95th percentiles of the predicted cover crop fraction. Such a fraction is assumed to vary between 0% (i.e., no cover crops in the pixel) to 100% (i.e., pixel completely covered by cover crops). The values in the raster files are multiplied by 100 to facilitate compression. For instance, a raster value of 1234 corresponds to a 12.34% cover crops fraction.

Dowload the data: Cover Crops 4 Tiff files (Median, SD: Standard Deviation, Q5, Q95 (5th and 95th percentile)

Reference: Fendrich, A. N., Matthews, F., Van Eynde, E., Carozzi, M., Li, Z., d'Andrimont, R., Lugato, E., Martin, P., Ciais, P., Panagos, P., 2023. From regional to parcel scale: A high-resolution map of cover crops across Europe combining satellite data with statistical surveys. Science of the Total Environment, pp.162300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162300

Fendrich, A. N., Matthews, F., Van Eynde, E., Carozzi, M., Li, Z., d'Andrimont, R., Lugato, E., Martin, P., Ciais, P., Panagos, P., 2023. From regional to parcel scale: A high-resolution map of cover crops across Europe combining satellite data with statistical surveys. Science of the Total Environment, pp.162300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162300

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 127248
Date - Time Tue, 03/31/2026 - 08:52
Name of User Nir Gutman
Organization Rivulis Climate
Type of Organization Private Company
-- Other
E-mail nir.gutman@rivulis.com
Purpose We are developing an enviourmental project in Italy, and can use the data from the article for our calculations. thank you.
Notes

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Borrelli, P., Köninger, J., Ballabio, C., Orgiazzi, A., Lugato, E., Liakos, L., Hervas, J., Jones, A.  Montanarella, L. 2022. European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(6), e13315. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13315
  • Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L., “European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements”; (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre