years. Aggregated in 36 or 12 general classes: Beetroot, Consumption potatoes, Maize, Seed potatoes, Sillage maize, Spring wheat, Starch potatoes Summer barley Winter barley, Winter wheat, Grassland and Other crops. Sentinel2 EO-based features Time-series of B4 (red band) Surface Reflectance, b8a (near infrared band) Surface Reflectance, Leaf Area Index and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Local features: Crop Distribution 386-dimension vector representing the distribution of the crops in the surrounding of the parcel (10km radius) The study is focused on data acquired over The Netherlands, for a total of 596,480 parcels 4
as an Audio Speech Recognition (ASR) task: The satellite signals were modeled as an acoustic signal, using a sliding window and statistical functionals to temporally aggregate the signal Sliding window of size 30 days, with a step of 15 days 6
We modeled the acoustic signal with a bidirectionnal LSTM with an attention Layer • We modeled the crops with an embedding layer • We fused the acoustic and the crop embeddings using fully connected layers • We modeled the multimodal crop-acoustic vector sequences with a LSTM • We added the crops distribution at the end (high-level information) and fused the modalities using fully connected layers We trained our networks as for a sequence classification task, 2019 as development set and 2020 as test set. 8
of crop rotations in a EO-based model and modeled it like an ASR • We added local information using a crop distribution vector • Our method outperforms by a great margin the classical state-of-the-art using only a RNN or a Transformer to model the EO data at the level of a year (LSTMYI ). Future works: • Investigate geographically the errors of our model • Use multimodal aligned or non-aligned time-series fusion models in order to better handle the multimodal aspect • Domain Adaptation using few-shot learning ? 11