Harmonised LUCAS database classified by crop sequence type

<p>Assessing the benefits of crop diversification &ndash; a pillar of the agroecological transition &ndash; on a large scale requires a description of current crop sequences as a baseline, which is lacking at the scale of the European Union (EU). This work is based on the Harmonised LUCAS in-situ land cover and use database for field surveys from 2006 to 2018 in the European Union (doi: <a href="http://doi.org/10.2905/f85907ae-d123-471f-a44a-8cca993485a2">10.2905/f85907ae-d123-471f-a44a-8cca993485a2)</a> to fill this gap, We completed this dataset with a crop sequence type information for each point under non-perennial agricultural land cover in 2012, 2015 and 2018.</p> <p>The dataset lucas_classified.csv includes 31 159 points. Variables &quot;point_id&quot;, &quot;nuts0&quot;, &quot;nuts2&quot;, &quot;th_lat&quot;, &quot;th_long&quot;, &quot;LC1_2012&quot;, &quot;LC1_2015&quot;, &quot;LC1_2018&quot; are inherited from the Harmonised LUCAS databse. Variables &quot;cereals&quot;, &quot;corn&quot;, &quot;rapeseed&quot;, &quot;sunflower&quot;, &quot;pulses&quot;, &quot;rootCrops&quot;, &quot;forageLeg&quot;, &quot;grassland&quot; correspond to the temporal frequencies of respectively cereals, corn, rapeseed, sunflower, pulses, root crops, forage legumes and grassland within the 2012, 2015 and 2018 crop sequence for each point. Variable &quot;crop_sequence_type&quot; is the crop sequence type assigned to each point, among eight options: cereals, corn and cereals, forage legumes and cereals, pulses and cereals, rapeseed and cereals, root crops and cereals, sunflower and cereals, temporary grasslands.</p> <p>This dataset could be used to map current dominant crop sequences in the European Union, as illustrated in the map attached, and to assess the benefits of future crop diversification.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>