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To broadly survey these practices, a number of remotely sensed products are available but issues with cloud cover and access to agriculture fields for validation purposes may limit the collection of data over large regions. In this study, we describe the development of a mobile roadside survey procedure for obtaining ground reference data for the remote sensing of agricultural land use practices. The key objective was to produce a dataset of geo-referenced roadside digital images that can be used in comparison to in-field photos to measure agricultural land use and land cover associated with crop residue and cover cropping in the non-growing season. We found a very high level of correspondence (&gt;90% level of agreement) between the mobile roadside survey to in-field ground verification data. Classification correspondence was carried out with a portion of the county-level census image data against 114 in-field manually categorized sites with a level of agreement of 93%. The few discrepancies were in the differentiation of residue levels between 30\u201360% and &gt;60%, both of which may be considered as achieving conservation practice standards. The described mobile roadside image capture system has advantages of relatively low cost and insensitivity to cloudy days, which often limits optical remote sensing acquisitions during the study period of interest. We anticipate that this approach can be used to reduce associated field costs for ground surveys while expanding coverage areas and that it may be of interest to industry, academic, and government organizations for more routine surveys of agricultural soil cover during periods of seasonal cloud cover.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12142342","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,22]],"date-time":"2020-07-22T03:23:16Z","timestamp":1595388196000},"page":"2342","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Semi-Automated Roadside Image Data Collection for Characterization of Agricultural Land Management Practices"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7575-4822","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Neal","family":"Pilger","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, Environment &amp; Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8438-5662","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aaron","family":"Berg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, Environment &amp; Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1532-7175","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pamela","family":"Joosse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guelph Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Guelph, ON N1G 4S9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"91","DOI":"10.1016\/j.isprsjprs.2013.03.006","article-title":"Change detection from remotely sensed images: From pixel-based to object-based approaches","volume":"80","author":"Hussain","year":"2013","journal-title":"ISPRS J. 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