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The purpose of this study is to design a dataset generation approach that extracts training data from already existing wetland maps in an unsupervised manner. The proposed method utilizes the LandTrendr algorithm to identify areas least likely to have changed over a seven-year period from 2016 to 2022 in Minnesota, USA. Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data were used through Google Earth Engine (GEE), and sub-pixel water fraction (SWF) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were considered as wetland indicators. A simple thresholding approach was applied to the magnitude of change maps to identify pixels with the most negligible change. These samples were then employed to train a random forest (RF) classifier in an object-based image analysis framework. The proposed method achieved an overall accuracy of 89% with F1 scores of 91%, 81%, 88%, and 72% for water, emergent, forested, and scrub-shrub wetland classes, respectively. The proposed method offers an accurate and cost-efficient method for updating wetland inventories as well as studying areas impacted by floods on state or even national scales. This will assist practitioners and stakeholders in maintaining an updated wetland map with fewer requirements for extensive field campaigns.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15204960","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,14]],"date-time":"2023-10-14T14:59:59Z","timestamp":1697295599000},"page":"4960","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Rapid Large-Scale Wetland Inventory Update Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Victor","family":"Igwe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate Program in Environmental Science, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), Syracuse, NY 13210, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7742-5475","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bahram","family":"Salehi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Resources Engineering, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse, NY 13210, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7234-959X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masoud","family":"Mahdianpari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"C-CORE and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John\u2019s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Federal Geographic Data Committee (2013). 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