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.
Authors
- Liegang Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3190-0178)
- Qi Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2004-6885)
- Li J (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1338-8764)
- Xiaodong Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-2728)
- Jiazhou Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7171-9547)
- Baiyang Ji
- Jiancheng Luo
- Xuanming Hu
Institutions
- Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Aerospace Information Research Institute (CN)
- Zhejiang University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Remote Sensing
- Published
- 2026-07-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18142268
- Primary Topic
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province