The Crop Fields (PAA) covers land use in agricultural and forestry areas managed as part of the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy by the Paying Agency of Wallonia.
The PAA represents the public version of the agricultural plot. It therefore does not include personal information allowing the operator to be identified. It is provided on an annual basis. Data from a year of cultivation are made available to the public during the following year.
The data is distributed in two ways: either at the source of the paying agency (more attributes but no public distribution) or at the European Commission data portal (no limitations). We use the free-licensed version for this converter.
No conditions apply to access and use. Distributed through Inspire guidelines <https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2a0d9be0-ac3d-443e-9db0-a7cfb0f128e2>)Browse this collection in the data browser, or start from the AGENTS.md for tested queries.
The latest edition is also available at a stable path: be_wal/latest/be_wal.parquet. All editions together through the S3 glob s3://ftw/harmonized-field-data/be_wal/year=*/*.parquet (see the AGENTS.md for the DuckDB setup; plain https cannot expand *).
Properties that are the same for every field are stored once, in the GeoParquet file's collection metadata rather than as columns (latest edition shown; a client reading only the table will not see them):
determination:datetime: 2022-01-01T00:00:00Zadmin:country_code: BEcrop:code_list: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maja601/EuroCrops/refs/heads/main/csvs/country_mappings/be_wal_all_years.csvQuery the published files in place with DuckDB; nothing needs downloading first.
This catalog is a mirror: the data is produced and licensed by Inspire Geoportal of the European Commission and republished here as cloud-native GeoParquet and PMTiles by Fields of the World. Each edition was downloaded from the source and converted with fiboa-cli 0.21.0, vecorel-cli 0.2.15:
The conversion is deterministic and lives in fiboa-cli; changes to how a column is mapped are made there, not in this catalog.
other — No conditions apply to access and use. Distributed through Inspire guidelines (converter: No conditions apply to access and use. Distributed through Inspire guidelines <https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2a0d9be0-ac3d-443e-9db0-a7cfb0f128e2>). Attribute the data to Inspire Geoportal of the European Commission.
| string |
| Crop name in the original language. (spec) |
hcat:name | string | The machine-readable HCAT name of the crop (Hierarchical Crop and Agriculture Taxonomy, EuroCrops). (spec) |
collection | string | The identifier of the collection. (spec) |
bbox | struct<xmin: double, ymin: double, xmax: double, ymax: double> | The bounding box of the field. Per-feature covering column (GeoParquet 1.1), in the source CRS. (spec) |