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This study presents the first national-scale, object-based Random Forest (RF) framework for orchard delineation and yield estimation by integrating multi-temporal Sentinel-2 imagery on Google Earth Engine (GEE) with high-resolution Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (PRSS-1) data. Among the tested classifiers, RF achieved the highest performance on Sentinel-2 data (Overall Accuracy (OA) = 79.0%, kappa (\u03ba) = 0.78), outperforming Support Vector Machines (OA = 74.5%, \u03ba = 0.74) and Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (OA = 73.8%, \u03ba = 0.73), with statistical significance confirmed (McNemar\u2019s \u03c72, p &lt; 0.01). Integrating RF with Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) on PRSS-1 imagery further enhanced boundary precision (OA = 92.6%, \u03ba = 0.89), increasing Producer\u2019s and User\u2019s accuracies to 90.4% and 91.5%, and increasing Intersection-over-Union (IoU) from 0.71 to 0.86 (p &lt; 0.01). Regression-based yield modeling using field-observed data revealed that mean- and median vegetation index aggregations provided the most stable predictions (R2 = 0.77\u20130.79; RMSE = 72\u2013105 kg tree\u22121), while extreme-value models showed higher errors (R2 = 0.46\u20130.56; RMSE &gt; 560 kg tree\u22121). The resulting multisensory geospatial inventory of citrus and mango orchards establishes a scalable, transferable, and operationally viable framework for orchard mapping yield forecasting, and resource planning, demonstrating the strategic value of national satellite assets for food security monitoring in data-scarce regions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s25247468","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,8]],"date-time":"2025-12-08T15:30:07Z","timestamp":1765207807000},"page":"7468","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["National-Scale Orchard Mapping and Yield Estimation in Pakistan Using Object-Based Random Forest and Multisource Satellite Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7045-4970","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ansar","family":"Ali","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"SAR Wing, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), SUPARCO HQ, Islamabad Expressway, Islamabad P.O. 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