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In this study, we investigate the delineation of agricultural field boundaries (AFB) from Sentinel-2 satellite images acquired over the Flevoland province, the Netherlands, using a deep learning technique based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs). We designed a multiple dilation fully convolutional network (MD-FCN) for AFB detection from Sentinel-2 images at 10 m resolution. Furthermore, we developed a novel super-resolution semantic contour detection network (named SRC-Net) using a transposed convolutional layer in the FCN architecture to enhance the spatial resolution of the AFB output from 10 m to 5 m resolution. The SRC-Net also improves the AFB maps at 5 m resolution by exploiting the spatial-contextual information in the label space. 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