European agricultural areas based on Copernicus data

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This dataset provides spatial information for "agricultural area" in 2018 with 1 ha spatial resolution across the EEA38 member countries and the United Kindgom. The raster value is 1 when agricultural area is identified and NoData for other land cover / land uses.

The spatial (GIS compatible) layer (referred to as Agricultural Area (AA) mask) was developed along the following lines:

• The use of Corine Land Cover as basic geographical skeleton (i.e. the 1 hectare CLC2018 accounting layer ).
• CLC agriculture classes (2.x.x) and CLC natural grassland (3.2.1) form the basis of delineation of the agricultural area mask.
• From these CLC classes non-agricultural patches (commissions which had originally been included in CLC due to the 
• generalisation to the 25 ha minimum mapping unit) are excluded using the Copernicus High Resolution Layers (HRLs):
• Woody vegetation (on the basis of FTY2018 100m layer: 0.5 ha, 10% tree cover density, no agricultural and urban trees), is excluded only from the following CLC classes: 211, 212, 213, 231, 242, 243, 321 – not from classes 2.2.x, 241 and 244,
• Artificially sealed surfaces, with a sealing degree ≥ 30% (on the basis of IMD 100m density layer),
• Permanent water surfaces larger or equal than 0.5ha are identified and excluded from AA based on 10m resolution HRL WAW2018 layer. Larger or equal than 0.5 ha contiguous (8 cell neighbourhood) permanent water (class 1) areas are identified in WAW layer in a first step. Secondly, a 100m resolution “Permanent Water density” (PWA) layer is created by aggregation. Permanent water density ≥ 45% was used to exclude permanent water surfaces from step 3 AA result.
• Larger areas covered by greenhouses (permanent, often “industrial” as well as temporary greenhouses) which are included in CLC under artificial areas are added to the AA mask in a separate step:
• by importing them from the local component 2018 data (Riparian Zones, N2K, Coastal Zones) (code 212) and
• by visual interpretation: contiguous areas larger than 20 hectares originally included to AA areas but filtered out by IMD ≥ 30% criteria are checked visually. If identified as greenhouse, they are added to AA areas.

Boolean

1: agriculture land

0: for other land cover / land uses.

• High Resolution Layer: Imperviousness Density 2018
• High Resolution Layer: Forest Type 2018
• High Resolution Layer: Water and Wetness 2018
• Corine Land Cover 2018 (raster 100m) version 20 accounting layer