June 19, 2025
WorldCereal, an ESA-funded project, aims to provide timely, high-resolution, and globally consistent cropland and crop type maps. Designed with openness, transparency, and user feedback at its core, the WorldCereal System is now live and free to use. Stakeholders in agriculture are invited to explore the platform and help shape its future by sharing their insights and experiences.
Democratising High-Resolution Crop Maps
Built by a consortium of leading Earth observation experts, the system uses open-source algorithms, satellite data, and reference datasets to generate seasonal crop maps at a 10-meter resolution. The goal: to support global food security, enable data-driven agricultural decision-making, and boost in-season crop monitoring in countries that need it most.
Users can generate custom crop maps through a user-friendly web interface, removing technical barriers and opening up Earth observation for a broader audience.
Let Us Know What You Think
We now invite researchers, policymakers, and agricultural stakeholders to try out the platform and share their feedback. Your insights are vital to help us improve and tailor the system to real-world needs. You can access the open-source WorldCereal System for free. How to get started? Find more detailed instructions and tutorials tailored to your use case here.
Join us at Living Planet Symposium
Curious to see these tools in action and learn more straight from the experts? Join the WorldCereal team at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna during June 22–27 for live demos, presentations, and posters on their latest research (see overview in table below). Discover how WorldCereal is powering the next generation of global agricultural insights and become a part of it.
f you cannot make it to Vienna, you can read more about the workings of WorldCereal's new cloud platform in our latest blog post.
| Timing | Type / Session | Topic | Room | Speakers |
| Monday, June 23 9:00-10:20 |
Tutorial D.03.14 |
Hands-on introduction to WorldCereal toolset for reference data management and custom crop mapping | 0.49/0.50 | Jeroen Degerickx (VITO) & Hendrik Boogaard (WENR) |
| Monday, June 23 14:00-15:30 |
Presentation A.02.10 |
Lightning talk at ESA Agriculture Science Cluster | 1.51/1.16 | Kristof Van Tricht (VITO) |
| Monday , June 23 17:00-17:20 |
Demo D.03.25 |
The WorldCereal Reference Data Module | ESA Booth EO Arena |
Juan-Carlos Laso Bayas (IIASA) |
| Monday, June 23 17:45-19:00 |
Poster A.02.03 |
The WorldCereal Reference Data Module | X5 Poster Area | Juan-Carlos Laso Bayas (IIASA) |
| Monday, June 23 17:45-19:00 |
Poster A.02.03 |
Agro-Climatic Zones for Global Crop Type Mapping | X5 Poster Area | Italo Moletto Lobos (Uni Valencia) |
| Tuesday, June 24 10:07-10:27 |
Demo D.04.14 |
How to generate crop maps using WorldCereal tools? | ESA Booth EO Arena |
Kristof Van Tricht & Jeroen Degerickx (VITO) |
| Tuesday, June 24 11:45-12:00 |
Presentation D.05.05 |
WorldCereal and the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem | Hall N1/N2 | Jeroen Degerickx (VITO) |
| Tuesday, June 24 15:00-15:20 |
Demo D.03.26 |
The Geo-Quest mobile application: ground data collection | ESA Booth EO Arena |
Juan-Carlos Laso Bayas (IIASA) |
| Wednesday, June 25 11:30-11:45 |
Presentation A.02.06 |
Global Crop Calendars in WorldCereal | Hall L1/L2 | Italo Moletto Lobos (Uni Valencia) |
| Wednesday, June 25 14:15-14:30 |
Presentation F.02.07 |
ESA WorldCereal: Advancing Open-Source, On-Demand Crop Mapping at Any Scale, Anytime | Hall E1 | Kristof Van Tricht (VITO) |
| Wednesday, June 25 15:45-16:15 |
Demo | How to generate crop maps using WorldCereal tools? | VITO Booth EO Arena |
Kristof Van Tricht & Jeroen Degerickx (VITO) |
| Wednesday, June 25 17:45-19:00 |
Poster D.03.03 |
Reference Data Quality Assessment For Global Crop Mapping | X5 Poster Area | Hendrik Boogaard (WENR) |
| Thursday, June 26 08:45-09:00 |
Presentation D.04.05 |
Mapping Crops at Scale: Insights from Continental and Global Crop Mapping Initiatives | Hall L3 | Kristof Van Tricht (VITO) |
| Thursday, June 26 15:00-15:15 |
Presentation D.02.06 |
What Does it Take to Deploy Foundation Models in an Operational Context? | Hall G1 | Christina Butsko (VITO) |
