The Land Cover® Plus Crops map has a large number of applications, including the production of farming statistic, environmental modelling and impact assessment and catchment sensitive farming. We recently have analysed the series of crop maps to describe patterns of crop rotation across GB. This data is freely available to researchers through the Edina Environment Digimap® service.
Every year since 2015, UKCEH has used high resolution satellite data to map the crops grown in all 2M fields across Great Britain