ESA WorldCereal 10m (ESA Consortium)
The first open global cropland and crop-type map at 10m — and an on-demand system to run your own analysis.
What this is
ESA WorldCereal maps global cropland extent and crop type (maize, winter cereals, spring cereals) at 10m from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. The 2021 global map is published; more crop types and years are in production through end-2026. Available via download portal, GEE (`ESA_WorldCereal`), and openEO. License CC-BY-4.0.
Why we surface it
Answers two questions at once: is this cropland, and what crop type? Pairs naturally with FTW field boundaries — boundaries say where the fields are; WorldCereal says what's in them.
What you can do with it
Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.
- Internal / individual use
- Free to use for any purpose, including commercial and AI training. Nothing's triggered until you share it.
- Redistribute the data
- Fine to use and redistribute, including commercially. One string attached: credit the original source wherever it shows up.
- Republish a derivative
- Build on it and republish freely, commercial or not. You must credit the original source in what you ship.
- Build into a private product
- Fine to build into a closed or commercial product. Attribution is still owed wherever the data is actually exposed to users.
This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.
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Related — same domain
- USDA NASS Crop Sequence Boundaries (CSB)Public domain
- USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer (CDL)Public domain
- LGRIP30 — Landsat-Derived Global Rainfed and Irrigated-Cropland Product (NASA LP DAAC)CC0 (NASA LP DAAC — no copyright restriction; attribution encouraged)
- GLAD Global Cropland Extent (UMD GLAD)CC-BY-4.0