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Therefore, the remote monitoring of grasslands is an important tool to control degradation and protect grasslands. However, the existing methods are often disturbed by clouds and fog, which makes it difficult to achieve all-weather and all-time grassland remote sensing monitoring. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data can penetrate clouds, which is helpful for solving this problem. In this study, we verified the advantages of the fusion of multi-spectral (MS) and SAR data for improving classification accuracy, especially for cloud-covered areas. We also proposed an adaptive feature fusion method (the SK-like method) based on an attention mechanism, and tested two types of patch construction strategies, single-size and multi-size patches. Experiments have shown that the proposed SK-like method with single-size patches obtains the best results, with 93.12% accuracy and a 0.91 average f1-score, which is a 1.02% accuracy improvement and a 0.01 average f1-score improvement compared with the commonly used feature concatenation method. Our results show that the all-weather, all-time remote sensing monitoring of grassland is possible through the fusion of MS and SAR data with suitable feature fusion methods, which will effectively enhance the regulatory capability of grassland resources.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030750","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]],"date-time":"2022-02-06T20:38:40Z","timestamp":1644179920000},"page":"750","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Remote Sensing Monitoring of Grasslands Based on Adaptive Feature Fusion with Multi-Source Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8448-1088","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weitao","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qin","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0341-1983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianxi","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Quanlong","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Boan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3882-5342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chenxi","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuxin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"White, R. 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