“…The mapping of agricultural areas has become essential because these areas are crucial to the economic development of many regions. Several techniques for mapping coffee cultivation areas were previously used by some authors (Cordero-Sancho & Sader, 2007;Martínez-Verduzco et al, 2012;Santos et al, 2012;Sarmiento et al, 2014), including the visual classification (Machado et al, 2010), the supervised pixel-based classification approach (Cordero-Sancho & Sader, 2007;Martínez-Verduzco et al, 2012), the object-based approach (Santos et al, 2012;Sarmiento et al, 2014;Souza et al, 2016), the machine-learning algorithms (Santos et al, 2012;Sarmiento et al, 2014;Souza et al, 2016), the use of different variables (Santos et al, 2012;Souza et al, 2016), and physical data (Prado et al, 2016). However, most of these works did not achieve satisfactory results for accuracy, once coffee cultivations are commonly misinterpreted with other vegetation, such as pasture and native vegetation, when automatic classification techniques are used.…”