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The underlying land use\/land cover (LULC) change is an important indicator of socioeconomic and food structure change in Bangladesh, and fishpond mapping is essential to understand such LULC change. Previous research often used water indexes (WI), such as Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI), to enhance water bodies and use shape-based metrics to assist classification of individual water features, such as coastal aquaculture ponds. However, inland fishponds in Bangladesh are generally extremely small, and little research has investigated mapping of such small water objects without high-resolution images. Thus, this research aimed to bridge the knowledge gap by developing and evaluating an automatic fishpond mapping workflow with Sentinel-2 images that is implemented on Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. The workflow mainly includes two steps: (1) the spectral filtering phase that uses a pixel selection technique and an image segmentation method to automatically identify all-year-inundated water bodies and (2) spatial filtering phase to further classify all-year-inundated water bodies into fishponds and non-fishponds using object-based features (OBF). To evaluate the performance of the workflow, we conducted a case study in the Singra Upazila of Bangladesh, and our method can efficiently map inland fishponds with a precision score of 0.788. Our results also show that the pixel selection technique is essential in identifying inland fishponds that are generally small. As the workflow is implemented on GEE, it can be conveniently applied to other regions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12172692","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T09:35:31Z","timestamp":1597916131000},"page":"2692","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Fishpond Mapping by Spectral and Spatial-Based Filtering on Google Earth Engine: A Case Study in Singra Upazila of Bangladesh"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7985-4775","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiqi","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22032, USA"}]},{"given":"Liping","family":"Di","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22032, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5540-3307","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Md. 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