Mapping of cropland, cropping patterns and crop types by combining optical remote sensing images with decision tree classifier and random forest

[1 ]State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

[2 ]School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

[3 ]School of Environmental Science, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

[4 ]State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

[5 ]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China