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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-G-2025-1055-2025</article-id>
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<article-title>Cotton Crop Classification using Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Datasets in Google Earth Engine</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Meerasha</surname>
<given-names>Benazir</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sagayam</surname>
<given-names>Martin</given-names>
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<addr-line>Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, India</addr-line>
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<day>30</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>XLVIII-G-2025</volume>
<fpage>1055</fpage>
<lpage>1062</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Benazir Meerasha</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<p>Cotton maps for Telangana which is one of the cotton producing region in India were produced through supervised classification in Google Earth Engine. To make well-informed decisions, farmers, governments, scientists, and agricultural organizations need accurate information on crop prediction. However, automated crop type mapping remains challenging due to the limited availability of field-level crop labels required to train supervised classification models. Cotton mapping was made more accurate and efficient by using a two-step mapping approach, which consists of mapping the cropland and then extracting the cotton crop for areas with more heterogeneity, this framework increased the accuracy from 83% to 91%. For a more accurate estimate of the cotton crop, this study combined high resolution Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data with several secondary data types in the SMILE Random Forest (RF) model at various stages of the crop growth season. For that First, cropland/non-cropland area were predicted to extract features from time series. Next, cotton crops through RF classifiers were applied on median composites of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for each pixel in the region. Furthermore, spectral, structural and phenological feature time-series satellite data were merged and processed into a supervised random forest classifier. The classification of cotton, cropland and non-cropland model produced with producers accuracy of 98%, 88% and 90%. Through experiments, we also discovered that employing time-series imagery generates substantially higher classification results than single-period images. The inclusion of shortwave infrared bands, followed by the addition of red-edge bands, can increase crop classification accuracy more than using simply traditional bands like the visible and near-infrared bands. Incorporating common vegetation indices and Sentinel-2 data, combining with Sentinel-1 reflectance bands improved the overall crop classification accuracy by 0.2% and 0.6%, respectively. This study demonstrates how combining optical and microwave remote sensing data, the GEE platform, transfer learning, and cotton cropland mapping algorithms can enhance insights into precision agricultural systems.</p>
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