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However, obtaining a large number of field survey samples for classifier training is often time-consuming and costly, which results in the very slow production of crop distribution maps. To overcome this challenge, we propose an ensemble learning approach from the existing historical crop data layer (CDL) to automatically create multitudes of samples according to the rules of spatiotemporal sample selection. Sentinel-2 monthly composite images from 2017 to 2019 for crop distribution mapping in Jilin Province were mosaicked and classified. Classification accuracies of four machine learning algorithms for a single-month and multi-month time series were compared. The results show that deep neural network (DNN) performed the best, followed by random forest (RF), then decision tree (DT), and support vector machine (SVM) the least. Compared with other months, July and August have higher classification accuracy, and the kappa coefficients of 0.78 and 0.79, respectively. Compared with a single phase, the kappa coefficient gradually increases with the growth of the time series, reaching 0.94 in August at the earliest, and then the increase is not obvious, and the highest in the whole growth cycle is 0.95. During the mapping process, time series of different lengths produced different classification results. Wetland types were misclassified as rice. In such cases, authors combined time series of two lengths to correct the misclassified rice types. By comparing with existing products and field points, rice has the highest consistency, followed by corn, whereas soybeans have the least consistency. This shows that the generated sample data set and trained model in this research can meet the crop mapping accuracy and simultaneously reduce the cost of field surveys. 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