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Therefore, the goal of this study was to generate prefecture-level city-scale mountainous grassland distribution data to support the development of sustainable grassland husbandry. Here, we proposed a sample selection method and comprehensively utilized multi-source data to obtain the quasi-10 m southwest grassland distribution data. The sample selection method was to first determine the sample selection range based on multi-source land use\/cover database, and then to randomly select the samples under the constraint of secondary land use types, multiple factors of terrain and pure pixels. This method can deal with the difficulty in identifying the fragmented grassland distribution caused by steep mountains and hills. In addition, a multispectral time series dataset was constructed based on the fusion of Landsat 8 OLI and Sentinel-2A\/B data due to cloudy and rainy weather and was used as one of the input features along with synthetic aperture radar Sentinel-1 time series data and the terrain multi-factor data. Finally, a remote sensing method to accurately identify grassland distribution in southwest China was constructed based on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. Taking Zhaotong City, a prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province, as an example, a thematic map of grassland distribution with an overall accuracy of 88.21% was obtained using the above method. 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