Raster-based Crop Rotation Map of the Rur catchment (2008-2012)

This data set contains a raster-based Crop Rotation Map (2008-2012) for the study area of the CRC/Transregio 32: "Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: monitoring, modelling and data assimilation", which corresponds to the catchment of the river Rur. The study area is mainly situated in the western part of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and parts of the Netherlands and Belgium, covering an area of approximately 2365 square kilometers. The crop rotation map provides the succession of the major agricultural crops (winter wheat, winter barley, winter rapeseed, sugar beet, maize, Potato, Spring Barley) on a year to year basis for every raster cell. The crop rotation map is provided in GeoTIFF format. Spatial resolution: 15 m; Projection: WGS84, UTM Zone 32N.