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In this manuscript, we evaluate the use of the Eurostat Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (LUCAS) 2018 data to generate a detailed LULC map with 19 crop type classes and two broad categories for woodland and shrubland, and grassland. The field data were used in combination with Copernicus Sentinel-2 (S2) satellite data covering Europe. First, spatially and temporally consistent S2 image composites of (1) spectral reflectances, (2) a selection of spectral indices, and (3) several bio-geophysical indicators were created for the year 2018. From the large number of features, the most important were selected for classification using two machine-learning algorithms (support vector machine and random forest). Results indicated that the 19 crop type classes and the two broad categories could be classified with an overall accuracy (OA) of 77.6%, using independent data for validation. Our analysis of three methods to select optimum training data showed that by selecting the most spectrally different pixels for training data, the best OA could be achieved, and this already using only 11% of the total training data. Comparing our results to a similar study using Sentinel-1 (S1) data indicated that S2 can achieve slightly better results, although the spatial coverage was slightly reduced due to gaps in S2 data. Further analysis is ongoing to leverage synergies between optical and microwave data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030541","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,23]],"date-time":"2022-01-23T20:34:40Z","timestamp":1642970080000},"page":"541","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":63,"title":["Designing a European-Wide Crop Type Mapping Approach Based on Machine Learning Algorithms Using LUCAS Field Survey and Sentinel-2 Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2319-5811","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Babak","family":"Ghassemi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2716-0146","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aleksandar","family":"Dujakovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5853-2534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mateusz","family":"\u017b\u00f3\u0142tak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6758-1207","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Markus","family":"Immitzer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2169-8009","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Clement","family":"Atzberger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4823-1700","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesco","family":"Vuolo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1444","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1155121","article-title":"Forests and climate change: Forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits of forests","volume":"320","author":"Bonan","year":"2008","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1253","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2486.2004.00812.x","article-title":"Role of land cover changes for atmospheric CO2 increase and climate change during the last 150 years","volume":"10","author":"Brovkin","year":"2004","journal-title":"Glob. 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