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With a growing archive of remote sensing data, there are enormous opportunities to exploit dense satellite image time series (SITS), temporal sequences of images over the same area. Generally, crop type mapping relies on single-sensor inputs and is solved with the help of traditional learning algorithms such as random forests or support vector machines. Nowadays, deep learning techniques have brought significant improvements by leveraging information in both spatial and temporal dimensions, which are relevant in crop studies. The concurrent availability of Sentinel-1 (synthetic aperture radar) and Sentinel-2 (optical) data offers a great opportunity to utilize them jointly; however, optimizing their synergy has been understudied with deep learning techniques. In this work, we analyze and compare three fusion strategies (input, layer, and decision levels) to identify the best strategy that optimizes optical-radar classification performance. They are applied to a recent architecture, notably, the pixel-set encoder\u2013temporal attention encoder (PSE-TAE) developed specifically for object-based classification of SITS and based on self-attention mechanisms. Experiments are carried out in Brittany, in the northwest of France, with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Input and layer-level fusion competitively achieved the best overall F-score surpassing decision-level fusion by 2%. On a per-class basis, decision-level fusion increased the accuracy of dominant classes, whereas layer-level fusion improves up to 13% for minority classes. Against single-sensor baseline, multi-sensor fusion strategies identified crop types more accurately: for example, input-level outperformed Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 by 3% and 9% in F-score, respectively. We have also conducted experiments that showed the importance of fusion for early time series classification and under high cloud cover condition.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13224668","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,19]],"date-time":"2021-11-19T08:29:17Z","timestamp":1637310557000},"page":"4668","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":73,"title":["Crop Type Mapping from Optical and Radar Time Series Using Attention-Based Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Stella","family":"Ofori-Ampofo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"IRISA UMR CNRS 6074, Campus de Tohannic, Universit\u00e9 Bretagne Sud, 56000 Vannes, France"},{"name":"Christian Doppler Laboratory for Geospatial and EO-Based Humanitarian Technologies, Department of Geoinformatics\u2014Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4652-7778","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Charlotte","family":"Pelletier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IRISA UMR CNRS 6074, Campus de Tohannic, Universit\u00e9 Bretagne Sud, 56000 Vannes, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0619-0098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stefan","family":"Lang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Christian Doppler Laboratory for Geospatial and EO-Based Humanitarian Technologies, Department of Geoinformatics\u2014Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Brown, M., Antle, J., Backlund, P., Carr, E., Easterling, B., Walsh, M., Ammann, C., Attavanich, W., Barrett, C., and Bellemare, M. 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