In-situ start and end of growing season dates of major European crop types from France and Bulgaria at a field level

Dessislava Ganeva; Tiphaine Tallec; Aurore Brut; Egor Prikaziuk; Enrico Tomelleri; Gerbrand Koren; Jochem Verrelst; Katja Berger; Lukas Valentin Graf; Santiago Belda; Zhanzhang Cai; Cláudio F Silva

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109623

In-situ start and end of growing season dates of major European crop types from France and Bulgaria at a field level

Data Brief. 2023 Sep 27:51:109623. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109623. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Dessislava Ganeva¹, Tiphaine Tallec², Aurore Brut², Egor Prikaziuk³, Enrico Tomelleri⁴, Gerbrand Koren⁵, Jochem Verrelst⁶, Katja Berger^{6

7}, Lukas Valentin Graf^{8

9}, Santiago Belda¹⁰, Zhanzhang Cai¹¹, Cláudio F Silva¹²

Affiliations

¹ Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev bl.1, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
² CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France.
³ Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
⁴ Faculty of Agricultural Environmental and Food Sciences Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.
⁵ Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
⁷ Mantle Labs GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Institute for Agricultural Science, ETH Zürich, Universitatsstrasse 2, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
⁹ Earth Observation of Agroecosystems Team, Division Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8042 Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Department of Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Alicante, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig - Alicante, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Solvegatan 12, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
¹² Forest Research Centre (CEF) and Associated Laboratory TERRA, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal.

Abstract

Crop phenology data offer crucial information for crop yield estimation, agricultural management, and assessment of agroecosystems. Such information becomes more important in the context of increasing year-to-year climatic variability. The dataset provides in-situ crop phenology data (first leaves emergence and harvest date) of major European crops (wheat, corn, sunflower, rapeseed) from seventeen field study sites in Bulgaria and two in France. Additional information such as the sowing date, area of each site, coordinates, method and equipment used for phenophase data estimation, and photos of the France sites are also provided. The georeferenced ground-truth dataset provides a solid base for a better understanding of crop growth and can be used to validate the retrieval of phenological stages from remote sensing data.

Keywords: BBCH; Cover crop; Phenology; Summer crop; Winter crop.