Crop Classification 2017 of the Rur Catchement using Sentinel-1 and data from open.NRW

This dataset contains the crop classification of 2017 for the German area of the CRC/Transregio 32: "Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: monitoring, modelling and data assimilation." The crop classification is derived from multitemporal remote sensing data analysis using Sentinel-1. In total 70 acquisitions, each covering the whole AOI were used. External data from open.NRW was used. The DGM1 and the ALKIS cadastre data. Accuracy assessment revealed a high overall accuracy of about 97% for the eleven crop classes. Only the German part of the TR32 is included in the data.