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Fine spatial resolution (FSR) remotely sensed imagery provides new opportunities for crop mapping at a detailed level. However, crop classification from FSR imagery is known to be challenging due to the great intra-class variability and low inter-class disparity in the data. In this research, a novel hybrid method (OSVM-OCNN) was proposed for crop classification from FSR imagery, which combines a shallow-structured object-based support vector machine (OSVM) with a deep-structured object-based convolutional neural network (OCNN). Unlike pixel-wise classification methods, the OSVM-OCNN method operates on objects as the basic units of analysis and, thus, classifies remotely sensed images at the object level. The proposed OSVM-OCNN harvests the complementary characteristics of the two sub-models, the OSVM with effective extraction of low-level within-object features and the OCNN with capture and utilization of high-level between-object information. By using a rule-based fusion strategy based primarily on the OCNN\u2019s prediction probability, the two sub-models were fused in a concise and effective manner. We investigated the effectiveness of the proposed method over two test sites (i.e., S1 and S2) that have distinctive and heterogeneous patterns of different crops in the Sacramento Valley, California, using FSR Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and FSR multispectral data, respectively. Experimental results illustrated that the new proposed OSVM-OCNN approach increased markedly the classification accuracy for most of crop types in S1 and all crop types in S2, and it consistently achieved the most accurate accuracy in comparison with its two object-based sub-models (OSVM and OCNN) as well as the pixel-wise SVM (PSVM) and CNN (PCNN) methods. Our findings, thus, suggest that the proposed method is as an effective and efficient approach to solve the challenging problem of crop classification using FSR imagery (including from different remotely sensed platforms). More importantly, the OSVM-OCNN method is readily generalisable to other landscape classes and, thus, should provide a general solution to solve the complex FSR image classification problem.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11202370","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,14]],"date-time":"2019-10-14T03:54:13Z","timestamp":1571025253000},"page":"2370","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["A hybrid OSVM-OCNN Method for Crop Classification from Fine Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Huapeng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5100-3584","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ce","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK"},{"name":"Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK"}]},{"given":"Shuqing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5489-6880","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peter M.","family":"Atkinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"321","DOI":"10.1016\/S0167-8809(02)00034-8","article-title":"A new crop yield forecasting model based on satellite measurements applied across the Indus Basin, Pakistan","volume":"94","author":"Bastiaanssen","year":"2003","journal-title":"Agric Ecosyst. 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