WorldCereal open global harmonized reference data repository (CC-BY-SA licensed data sets)

<p>Within the<strong> ESA funded</strong> WorldCereal project we have built an open harmonized reference data repository at global extent&nbsp;for model training or product validation&nbsp;in support of land cover and crop type mapping. Data from 2017 onwards were collected from many different sources and then&nbsp;harmonized, annotated and evaluated. These steps are explained in the harmonization protocol (10.5281/zenodo.7584463). This protocol also clarifies the naming convention of the shape files and the WorldCereal attributes&nbsp;(LC, CT, IRR, valtime and sampleID) that were added to the original data sets.</p> <p>This publication&nbsp;includes those harmonized&nbsp;data sets of which the original data set was&nbsp;published under the CC-BY-SA license or a license similar to CC-BY-SA. See document &quot;_In-situ-data-World-Cereal - license - CC-BY-SA.pdf&quot; for an overview of the original data sets.</p>