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First, the enhanced spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model (ESTARFM) was applied to blend Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Landsat to generate a time series of fusion images at 30 m resolution, and then the vegetation indices (VIs) related to greenness and moisture content of the rice canopy were calculated to create the time-series of VIs. Second, phenological metrics were extracted from the time-series data of VIs, and a feature selection scheme was designed to acquire an optimal phenological metric subset. Finally, an ensemble model with optimal phenological metrics as classification features was built using random forest (RF) and gradient boosting (GB) classifiers, and the classification of stress levels was implemented. The results demonstrated that the overall accuracy of discrimination for different stress levels is greater than 98%. 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