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The lengthy delays due to reference data collection and cleansing are one of the main issues for applications. In this work, the use of Optimal Transport (OT) is proposed. OT is a Domain Adaptation method that uses past data, both images and reference data, to produce the land-cover map of the current period without updated reference data. Seven years of Formosat-2 image time series and the corresponding reference data are used to evaluate two OT algorithms: conventional EMD transport and regularized transport based on the Sinkhorn distance. The contribution of OT to a classification fusion strategy is also evaluated. The results show that with a 17-class nomenclature the problem is too complex for the Sinkhorn algorithm, which provides maps with an Overall Accuracy (OA) of 30%. In contrast, with the EMD algorithm, an OA close to 70% is obtained. One limitation of OT is the number of classes that can be considered at the same time. Simplification schemes are proposed to reduce the number of classes to be transported. Cases of improvement are shown when the problem is simplified, with an improvement in OA varying from 5% and 20%, producing maps with an OA near 79%. As several years are available, the OT approaches are compared to standard fusion schemes, like majority voting. 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