The land register is a geographic information system (GIS) that gathers information about agricultural land eligible for state and European Union support from direct support scheme payments or environmental, climate, and rural landscape improvement payments.
The GIS of the field register contains a database of field blocks with interconnected spatial cartographic data and information of attributes subordinate to them: geographic attachment, identification numbers, and area information.
Each edition is the campaign the Rural Support Service published it for, taken from the
period_code the files carry themselves.
The latest edition is also available at a stable path: lv/latest/lv.parquet. All editions together through the S3 glob s3://ftw/harmonized-field-data/lv/year=*/*.parquet (see the AGENTS.md for the DuckDB setup; plain https cannot expand *).
Published until 2026-09-15 as one edition labelled 2026, which was a snapshot of the rolling WFS rather than a campaign; these editions replace it. The yearly releases carry the crop code without a name, so crop:name is resolved through the code list. Code 619 has no HCAT mapping (3,989 fields of 2022, 0.93% of that edition): the Rural Support Service publishes no code list and the code does not appear in the WFS.
Carried over from the source column block_number; the publisher documents no meaning for it.
crop:code
string
The crop code, from the code list of the source. (spec)
metrics:area
float
Area of the field, in square meters (m²). Must be > 0 and <= 1,000,000,000. (spec)
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: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
admin:country_code: LV
crop:code_list: https://fiboa.org/code/lv/lv.csv
Access
Query the published files in place with DuckDB; nothing needs downloading first.
Provenance
This catalog is a mirror: the data is produced and licensed by Rural Support Service Republic of Latvia (Lauku atbalsta dienests) 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 0.2.16:
