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It has a stronger capability to increase terrestrial carbon sinks than woody forests in the same environment, thus playing a special role in absorbing atmospheric CO2. Accurate and timely bamboo forest maps are necessary to better understand and quantify their contribution to the carbon and hydrological cycles. Previous studies have reported that the unique phenology pattern of bamboo forests, i.e., the on- and off-year cycle, can be detected with time-series high spatial resolution remote sensing (RS) images. Nevertheless, this information has not yet been applied in large-scale bamboo mapping. In this study, we innovatively incorporate newly designed phenology features reflecting the aforementioned on- and off-year cycles into a typical end-to-end classification workflow, including two features describing growing efficiency during the green-up season and two features describing the difference between annual peak greenness. Additionally, two horizonal morphology features and one tree height feature were employed, simultaneously. An experiment in southeast China was carried out to test the method\u2019s performance, in which seven categories were focused. A total of 987 field samples were used for training and validation (70% and 30%, respectively). The results show that combining the time-series features based on spectral bands and vegetation indices and newly designed phenology and morphology patterns can differentiate bamboo forests from other vegetation categories. Based on these features, the classification results exhibit a reasonable spatial distribution and a satisfactory overall accuracy (0.89). The detected bamboo area proportion in 82 counties agrees with the statistics from China\u2019s Third National Land Survey, which was produced based on high resolution images from commercial satellites and human interpretation (correlation coefficient = 0.69, and root mean squared error = 5.1%). 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