Tree crops like oil palm present a unique challenge in land cover mapping, as they are often
misclassified as natural forest. The area cultivated with oil palm in Ghana has rapidly
expanded since 2000, and production is expected to continue to increase. Sentinel-1 and
Sentinel-2 satellite data was used as inputs to a random forest classifier in Google Earth
Engine to map mature, closed-canopy oil palm extent in 2019 of a Ghana study area that
includes both industrial plantations and smallholders. The combination of Sentinel-1 and …