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This paper addresses these key issues. Two classification methods were employed to map irrigated fields using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values derived from Landsat 7 and Landsat 8: a dynamic thresholding method (method one) and a random forest method (method two). To improve the representativeness of field-level NDVI aggregates, which are the key inputs in our methods, a Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based filtering approach was adopted to remove noncrop pixels (e.g., trees and bare soils) and mixed pixels along the field boundary. To improve the temporal transferability of method one we dynamically determined the threshold value to account for the impact of interannual weather variability based on the dynamic range of NDVI values. In method two an innovative training sample pool was designed for the random forest modeling to enable automatic calibration for each season, which contributes to consistent performance across years. The irrigated field mapping was applied to a major irrigation district in Australia from 2011 to 2018, for summer and winter cropping seasons separately. The results showed that using GMM-based filtering can markedly improve field-level data quality and avoid up to 1\/3 of omission errors for irrigated fields. Method two showed superior performance, exhibiting consistent and good accuracy (kappa &gt; 0.9) for both seasons. The classified maps in wet winter seasons should be used with caution, because rainfall alone can largely meet plant water requirements, leaving the contribution of irrigation to the surface spectral signature weak. The approaches introduced are transferable to other areas, can support multiyear irrigated area mapping with high accuracy, and significantly reduced model development effort.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14040997","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,21]],"date-time":"2022-02-21T08:23:29Z","timestamp":1645431809000},"page":"997","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Enhancing the Accuracy and Temporal Transferability of Irrigated Cropping Field Classification Using Optical Remote Sensing Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0384-0385","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zitian","family":"Gao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia"}]},{"given":"Danlu","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5335-6209","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongryeol","family":"Ryu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4982-146X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrew W.","family":"Western","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envsci.2014.03.001","article-title":"Rural vulnerability to environmental change in the irrigated lowlands of Central Asia and options for policy-makers: A review","volume":"41","author":"Aleksandrova","year":"2014","journal-title":"Environ. 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