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We developed DCSF-Net, a dual-branch cross-scale spatiotemporal fusion network that integrates 0.3\u00a0m RGB imagery with a 26-channel Sentinel-2 spectral-phenological feature tensor derived from 2024 dry-season (T1, October-December) and wet-season (T2, April-September) median composites and their differences. The RGB branch uses local boundary attention (LBA) and a directional topology module (DTM) to retain local contrast and elongated morphology, while the Deformable Cross-Scale Attention Bridge (D-CSAB) fuses the high-resolution spatial feature tensor output by the RGB branch with the upsampled Sentinel-2 representation through RGB-guided deformable convolution, cross-attention, and zero-initialized residual injection. On the test set, DCSF-Net achieved an F1-score of 95.68% and an intersection over union (IoU) of 91.72%, outperforming the evaluated RGB-only baselines. In matched-input ablations, replacing D-CSAB with direct fusion reduced IoU by 3.20 percentage points, removing zero-initialized residual injection reduced IoU by 1.86 points, and jointly removing LBA and DTM reduced IoU by 5.36 points. 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