The FLAME dataset provides farm-level geospatial and tabular data products that map agricultural landholdings and ownership structures across England. Developed to support environmental policy, nature finance, and agri-environmental modeling, FLAME integrates multiple open data sources into a harmonised spatial database of farmed assets.
This version (v2.0) includes detailed information on:
● Farm boundaries derived from spatial overlays of land parcels.
● Ownership boundaries associated with registered titles.
● Cropping and land use attributes sourced from annual returns.
● Matched farm-business entities using natural language processing and rule-based entity matching.
● Aggregated indicators on area, land use types, and overlaps between ownership and farm.
● Metadata on administrative districts and relevant environmental overlays.
Key features:
● Combines Rural Payments Agency (RPA) land parcel data, HM Land Registry ownership polygons, and June Agricultural Census statistics.
● Includes NLP-enhanced entity resolution for linking farm and ownership entities.
● Provides geospatial fields including SBI-level farm areas, ownership-perimeter overlaps, and crop-specific land use.
● Useful for asset-level emissions accounting, biodiversity mapping, regulatory targeting, and financial risk analysis.
A Field-Level Asset Mapping Dataset for England's Agricultural Sector doi.org/10.1038/s415... paper by @hassanaftab.bsky.social et al
Dataset doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (CC-SA)
Blog post www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/we-mapp...
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