The figure illustrates all 800 000 individual crop parcels in the Netherlands. The figure also shows the main crop types and highlights the areas dominated by tulips – and ornamental crop. Other than tulips, the other main crops are potatoes, sugar beet, grassland, maize, cereals and onions. Over 300 different crop types are represented in the Agriculture Sandbox NL dataset tool and create a perfect outline of the Netherlands. ESA worked with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to develop Agricultural Sandbox NL, which makes use of radar data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and optical, or camera-like, data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 and reduces terabytes of satellite data to just 10 gigabytes per year. Importantly, this dataset tool makes these data perfect for non-expert data users in the agriculture sector.
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