Early-Season Field Reference Dataset of Croplands in a Consolidated Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado

We present the Goiatuba Land Use and Land Cover Dataset containing plot boundaries and reference information collected during the 2025/2026 Brazilian crop calendar. It is provided as a single GeoPackage (.gpkg) file. The main layer comprises 578 plots, each labeled according to the observed land use and land cover (LULC) category. This dataset is the supplementary data of a paper submitted at data (MDPI) in November/2025. This was partially financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil, Finance Code 001, grants # 88887.948252/2024-00 and 88881.183739/2025-01, as well as by the Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF), grants # 00193.00002276/2022-90 “Demanda Espontânea” and 00193.00002586/2022-12 “AgroLearning”.