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Large-scale crop rotation monitoring relies on the results of crop classification using remote sensing technology. However, the limited crop classification accuracy cannot satisfy the accurate identification of crop rotation patterns. In this paper, a crop classification and rotation mapping scheme combining the random forest (RF) algorithm and new statistical features extracted from time-series ground range direction (GRD) Sentinel-1 images. First, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) time-series stacks are established, including VH, VV, and VH\/VV channels. Then, new statistical features named the objected generalized gamma distribution (OG\u0393D) features are introduced to compare with other object-based features for each polarization. The results showed that the OG\u0393D \u03c3VH achieved 96.66% of the overall accuracy (OA) and 95.34% of the Kappa, improving around 4% and 6% compared with the object-based backscatter in VH polarization, respectively. Finally, annual crop-type maps for five consecutive years (2017\u20132021) are generated using the OG\u0393D \u03c3VH and the RF. By analyzing the five-year crop sequences, the soybean-corn (corn-soybean) is the most representative rotation in the study region, and the soybean-corn-soybean-corn-soybean (together with corn-soybean-corn-soybean-corn) has the highest count with 100 occurrences (25.20% of the total area). This study offers new insights into crop rotation monitoring, giving the basic data for government food planning decision-making.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205116","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,13]],"date-time":"2022-10-13T22:21:11Z","timestamp":1665699671000},"page":"5116","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Crop Classification and Representative Crop Rotation Identifying Using Statistical Features of Time-Series Sentinel-1 GRD Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1321-510X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Environment, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8404-0530","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinfei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Environment, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1656-560X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongjun","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Environment, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Shan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Environment, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.2307\/1941795","article-title":"Crop Rotation and Intercropping Strategies for Weed Management","volume":"3","author":"Liebman","year":"1993","journal-title":"Ecol. 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