Agricultural monitoring faces unique challenges, arising from the landscape's complex temporal, phenological, and climate dynamics, yet monitoring them is critical for ensuring food security. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites offer all-weather day-night imaging capability supporting key monitoring tasks including crop type mapping, yield prediction and phenological event detection.
arXiv:2606. 05731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-season crop type mapping is critical for food security in the face of increasingly extreme climate-related threats to crops.
By August Posch, Jitendra Kumar, Forrest M. Hoffman, Auroop R. Ganguly
arXiv:2609.38165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The landscape of satellite imagery time series datasets and boundary-pushing architectures for cropland segmentation has never been richer. However,...
By Joseph Metcalfe, Sara Sharifzadeh, Fabio Caraffini
arXiv:2603.27519v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Image-based plant phenotyping depends on dense structural understanding of crops, yet pixel-level annotation remains expensive across species, orga...
By Shuai Xiang, James Burridge, Shouyang Liu, Hao Lu, Tokihiro Fukatsu, Yinqiang Zheng, Wei Guo
AgroBench is a reproducible benchmark that converts U.S. county-level crop yield statistics into weakly supervised pixel‑level crop time series. The data generation pipeline fuses USDA yield data with land cover masks, Sentinel‑2 and Sentinel‑1 imagery, climatic variables, and terrain information to produce multimodal sequences for individual crop pixels across the growing season. The benchmark includes over 13 million observations from 788,654 crop pixels, covering 5,107 county‑year combinations for five major U.S. crops from 2017 to 2024, and establishes a Leave‑One‑Year‑Out evaluation protocol with baseline machine learning results.
By Udaiveer Singh, Rajiv Ranjan, Shashank Tamaskar, Dharmendra Saraswat
arXiv:2607. 04449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Field-boundary maps support crop monitoring, irrigation planning, and yield estimation, but many smallholder parcels span only a few 10 m Sentinel-2 pixels.
By Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Jennifer Marcus, Hannah Kerner