A Parcel-Level Asynchronous SpatioTemporal Framework for Cropping Pattern Classification in Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes

High-accuracy parcel-level agricultural mapping is fundamental to precision agriculture. However, in fragmented agricultural regions of the Yangtze River Delta, identifying cropping patterns at the parcel level faces two compounding challenges: asynchronous multi-source observations and mixed-pixel effects in small parcels. When historical archive records are used as training labels, inter-annual cropping pattern changes further introduce label noise that undermines model reliability. To address these challenges and the label noise issue, we propose PAST (Parcel-level Asynchronous SpatioTemporal), a parcel-level cropping pattern classification framework comprising three stages: K-Shape-based label quality control, parallel dual-branch classification, and decision-level fusion. PAST employs a dual-branch architecture: the temporal branch achieves interpolation-free cross-modal phenological fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, while the image branch extracts canopy texture features from 0.8 m high-resolution imagery to partially address mixed-pixel interference. Experiments in a typical fragmented agricultural region of the Yangtze River Delta demonstrate that PAST achieves an overall F1 score of 0.926 and a small-parcel F1 score of 0.906, outperforming mainstream time-series baselines. These results confirm that combining K-Shape label quality control at the data level with a dual-branch interference-robust architecture at the model level provides a complete integrated three-stage pipeline for fine-grained crop mapping under weakly supervised historical archive label conditions.

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Remote Sensing
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2026-07-08
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18142268
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Remote Sensing in Agriculture
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A Parcel-Level Asynchronous SpatioTemporal Framework for Cropping Pattern Classification in Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes

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A Parcel-Level Asynchronous SpatioTemporal Framework for Cropping Pattern Classification in Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes

Liegang Xia, Qi Li, Li J, Xiaodong Hu, Jiazhou Chen, Baiyang Ji, Jiancheng Luo, Xuanming Hu
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Abstract

High-accuracy parcel-level agricultural mapping is fundamental to precision agriculture. However, in fragmented agricultural regions of the Yangtze River Delta, identifying cropping patterns at the parcel level faces two compounding challenges: asynchronous multi-source observations and mixed-pixel effects in small parcels. When historical archive records are used as training labels, inter-annual cropping pattern changes further introduce label noise that undermines model reliability. To address these challenges and the label noise issue, we propose PAST (Parcel-level Asynchronous SpatioTemporal), a parcel-level cropping pattern classification framework comprising three stages: K-Shape-based label quality control, parallel dual-branch classification, and decision-level fusion. PAST employs a dual-branch architecture: the temporal branch achieves interpolation-free cross-modal phenological fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, while the image branch extracts canopy texture features from 0.8 m high-resolution imagery to partially address mixed-pixel interference. Experiments in a typical fragmented agricultural region of the Yangtze River Delta demonstrate that PAST achieves an overall F1 score of 0.926 and a small-parcel F1 score of 0.906, outperforming mainstream time-series baselines. These results confirm that combining K-Shape label quality control at the data level with a dual-branch interference-robust architecture at the model level provides a complete integrated three-stage pipeline for fine-grained crop mapping under weakly supervised historical archive label conditions.

Remote SensingVol. 18(14)
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (CN), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN), Aerospace Information Research Institute (CN), Zhejiang University of Technology (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
Zero hunger
Openalex Percentile: Top 8%
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
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