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Ten-daily maximum value NDVI composites were created and smoothed in SPIRITS (spirits.jrc.ec.europa.eu). The study sites were globally spread agricultural areas located in Flanders (Belgium), Sria (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). For each pure pixel within the field, the NDVI profile of the crop type for its growing season was matched with the reference NDVI profile based on the training set extracted from the study site where the crop type originated. Three temporal windows were tested within the growing season: green-up to senescence, green-up to dormancy and minimum NDVI at the beginning of the growing season to minimum NDVI at the end of the growing season. Post classification rules were applied to the results to aggregate the crop type at the plot level. The overall accuracy (%) ranged between 65 and 86, and the kappa coefficient changed from 0.43\u20130.84 according to the site and the temporal window. In order of importance, the crop phenological development period, parcel size, shorter time window, number of ground-truth parcels and crop calendar similarity were the main reasons behind the differences between the results. 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