Crop-type mapping assigns crop species or crop groups to agricultural parcels or pixels using seasonal optical reflectance, radar backscatter, radar coherence, hyperspectral signatures, and crop-calendar behaviour.^[1]^[2]

ESA WorldCereal demonstrates global seasonal cropland and crop-type mapping at 10 m with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat, meteorological, and in-situ data.^[1]^[3]

Crop-type classification depends on time-series behaviour as well as spectral separability, so crop calendars and local reference data affect model transferability.^[2]^[1]

SAR-optical fusion adds weather-independent structural information for cloud-prone agricultural regions.^[2]

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MapBiomas MapBiomas Network

Advanced Hyperspectral Imager Gaofen-5 (GF-5)

AEISS-A KOMPSAT-3A

Antelope DPU —

AWiFS Resourcesat-2

Carble Remote Sensing for Coffee and Cocoa Supply Chains —

Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Tanager-1

CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2 CBERS-4

CBERS-4A Multispectral CCD Camera CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Field Imager CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Swath Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera CBERS-4A

COSMIC-EYE Area Monitoring —

COSMIC-EYE Infrastructure Monitoring —

CSG-SAR COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation

DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) —

Dove Classic Planet Dove

Dove-R Planet Dove

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) DSCOVR

EnMAP HSI (Hyperspectral Imager) —

Hyper-Spectral Imager - 2 Huan Jing-2A

HySIS HySIS

KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

LISS-III (Resourcesat) Resourcesat-2

LISS-IV Resourcesat-2

MetaSAR-L —

MetaSAR-X —

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) —

MONITORED AI —

MSC (KOMPSAT-2) KOMPSAT-2

MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument) —

MSS (KANOPUS) Kanopus-V

MSU-GS Electro-L Imager Electro-L N2

MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

NewSat multispectral camera Satellogic NewSat constellation

NISAR L-band SAR NISAR

NISAR S-band SAR NISAR

OLI (Operational Land Imager) —

OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) —

PALSAR-2 —

Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Pléiades HiRI Pleiades-1A

PMS-2 Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-2

PMS-3 high-resolution optical sensor SuperView / GaoJing constellation

SAR-C (EOS-04) EOS-04

SAR-C (Gaofen-3) Gaofen-3 (GF-3)

SAR-L (SAOCOM L-band SAR) SAOCOM-1A

Second Generation Global Imager (SGLI) GCOM-C (Shikisai)

Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Meteosat-10

SuperDove Planet Dove

The Herd —

Verde —

Wide Field Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Wide View CCD camera - 2 Huan Jing-2A

Zhuhai-1 OHS hyperspectral imager Zhuhai-1 OHS

Sources

[1]ESA Introducing WorldCerealagency doc2023-04-182026-05-27
[2]Official release of ESA WorldCereal productsagency doc2023-04-182026-05-27
[3]ESA APEx WorldCereal Crop Type Detectoragency doc-2026-05-27

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Crop-type mapping. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-27. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/crop-type (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:topics:crop-type,
  title = {Crop-type mapping},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-27. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/crop-type}
}