pvgenuchten
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3 months ago IACS data are typically collected in a national LPIS system
A query on LPIS in the INSPIRE geoportal gives quite some results, mostly because some of the memberstates have LPIS set up regionally. Results from quite a number of memberstates:
other relevant keywords are Common agricultural policy, GSAA and IACS
Dutch aiacs data (parcels + yearly crop) is available via https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/srv/metadata/b812a145-b4fe-4331-8dc6-d914327a87ff (harvested from https://nationaalgeoregister.nl/geonetwork/srv/metadata/b812a145-b4fe-4331-8dc6-d914327a87ff)
Mind for 2023 this is a 4GB SQLITE database
Would be good to harvest this metadata
Netherlands (RVO) maintains a codelist for crops planted on these parcels. In practice this codelist is extended on a yearly basis. Currently the crop codelist is not harmonised over europe (as far as we know)
In the project agrodatacube a mapping is being prepared to map the codelist of the netherlands to a botanic taxonomy, would be interesting to repeat this exercise for germany/belgium... to see if a single treatment of the data could be valid for both countries
You will notice that the size of the dataset has increased substantially over the last years, this relates to the fact that legislation indicates to be more precise on deliniation on for example borders next to water, which require a 3m buffer
It is important to understand where other countries share there IACS data, Spain and Italy share it via https://openiacs.eu, but it is not clear how persistent this initiative is
Fenny mentioned EUrope is setting up an initiative to share where member state data is published. Paul to check status.