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To reach a world without hunger and malnutrition by implementing precision agriculture, satellite remote sensing plays an increasingly important role in field crop monitoring and management. Alfalfa, a global widely distributed forage crop, requires more attention to predict its yield and quality traits from satellite data since it supports the livestock industry. Meanwhile, there are some key issues that remain unknown regarding alfalfa remote sensing from optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data, this study developed, compared, and further integrated new optical- and SAR-based satellite models for improving alfalfa yield and quality traits prediction, i.e., crude protein (CP), acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFD). Meanwhile, to better understand the physical mechanism of alfalfa optical remote sensing, a unified hybrid leaf area index (LAI) retrieval scheme was developed by coupling the PROSAIL radiative transfer model, spectral response function of the desired optical satellite, and a random forest (RF) model, denoted as a scalable optical satellite-based LAI retrieval framework. Compared to optical vegetation indices (VIs) that only capture canopy information, the results indicate that LAI had the highest correlation (r = 0.701) with alfalfa yield due to its capacity in delivering the vegetation structure characteristics. For alfalfa quality traits, optical chlorophyll VIs presented higher correlations than LAI. On the other hand, LAI did not provide a significant additional contribution for predicting alfalfa parameters in the RF developed optical prediction model using VIs as inputs. In addition, the optical-based model outperformed the SAR-based model for predicting alfalfa yield, CP, and NDFD, while the SAR-based model showed better performance for predicting ADF and NDF. The integration of optical and SAR data contributed to higher accuracy than either optical or SAR data separately. Compared to a traditional embedded integration approach, the combination of multisource heterogeneous optical and SAR satellites was optimized by multiple linear regression (yield: R2 = 0.846 and RMSE = 0.0354 kg\/m2; CP: R2 = 0.636 and RMSE = 1.57%; ADF: R2 = 0.559 and RMSE = 1.926%; NDF: R2 = 0.58 and RMSE = 2.097%; NDFD: R2 = 0.679 and RMSE = 2.426%). 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