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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W21-2025-19-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Deep Noisy-Label Learning Based Cross-Resolution Land-Cover Mapping in Kenya</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yinhe</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Yingxin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Karanja</surname>
<given-names>Faith</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xu</surname>
<given-names>Xian</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Boitt</surname>
<given-names>Mark K.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Ruiyi</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pellikka</surname>
<given-names>Petri</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhong</surname>
<given-names>Yanfei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi P.O. Box 30197-00100, Kenya</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Geomatics, GIS and Remote Sensing, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Private Bag, Dedan Kimathi, Nyeri P.O. Box 10143-10100, Kenya</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>17</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLVIII-4/W21-2025</volume>
<fpage>19</fpage>
<lpage>24</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Yinhe Liu et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>High-resolution land-cover information is critical for environmental monitoring across rapidly changing African landscapes, yet national-scale 10 m mapping remains limited by scarce training data and inconsistencies among existing products. This study presents a scalable framework for generating a 10 m land-cover map of Kenya for 2022 by integrating multi-temporal Sentinel-2 composites, historical land-cover datasets, and volunteered geographic information. A confidence-weighted fusion of GlobeLand30, FROM-GLC, and FROM-GLC10 produces large-scale synthetic labels that reduce temporal misalignment and systematic biases. A ConvNeXt&amp;ndash;UPerNet segmentation network trained with a noise-aware bootstrap focal loss effectively captures Kenya&amp;rsquo;s strong multi-scale heterogeneity, from cropland mosaics and rangelands to riparian corridors and expanding urban areas. The resulting map shows clear improvements in spatial coherence and thematic detail over existing 10&amp;ndash;30 m products. The proposed approach offers a practical pathway for routine 10 m national mapping in data-sparse regions and provides timely, reliable information for ecological monitoring, agricultural assessment, and sustainable land-use planning in Kenya and East Africa.</p>
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