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This quantification could establish a confidence criterion useful for decisions taken on this data or to have a better apprehension of the possible consequences of using this data in learning downstream functions such as classification. We consider two agricultural label errors: crop type mislabels and mis-split crops. To process and correct these errors, we design a two-step methodology. Using class-specific convolutional autoencoders applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) time series of free-to-use and temporally dense Sentinel-1 data, we detect out-of-distribution temporal profiles of crop time series, which we categorize as one out of the three following possibilities: crop edge confusion, incorrectly split crop areas, and potentially mislabeled crop. We then relabel crops flagged as mislabeled using an Otsu threshold-derived confidence criteria. We numerically validate our methodology using a controlled disruption of labels over crops of confidence. We then compare our methods to supervised algorithms and show improved quality of relabels, with up to 98% correct relabels for our method, against up to 91% for Random Forest-based approaches. We show a drastic decrease in the performance of supervised algorithms under critical conditions (smaller and larger amounts of introduced label errors), with Random Forest falling to 56% of correct relabels against 95% for our approach. We also explicit the trade-off made in the design of our method between the number of relabels, and their quality. In addition, we apply this methodology to a set of agricultural labels containing probable mislabels. We also validate the quality of the corrections using optical imagery, which helps highlight incorrectly cut crops and potential mislabels. We then assess the applicability of the proposed method in various contexts and scales and present how it is suitable for verifying and correcting farmers\u2019 crop declarations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15010035","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,22]],"date-time":"2022-12-22T02:31:11Z","timestamp":1671676271000},"page":"35","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["FARMSAR: Fixing AgRicultural Mislabels Using Sentinel-1 Time Series and AutoencodeRs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4853-3987","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"Di Martino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"SONDRA, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, 3 Rue Joliot Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France"},{"name":"DTIS, ONERA, 6 Chemin de la Vauve aux Granges, 91120 Palaiseau, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9729-0192","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"R\u00e9gis","family":"Guinvarc\u2019h","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SONDRA, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, 3 Rue Joliot Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9671-431X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laetitia","family":"Thirion-Lefevre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SONDRA, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, 3 Rue Joliot Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7401-8073","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elise","family":"Colin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DTIS, ONERA, 6 Chemin de la Vauve aux Granges, 91120 Palaiseau, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1092","DOI":"10.1109\/36.406698","article-title":"Monitoring of rice crop growth from space using the ERS-1 C-band SAR","volume":"33","author":"Kurosu","year":"1995","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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