Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-00122-y, published online 19 January 2021.

In the version of the article initially published, ref. 111 was incorrect and has now been amended to Clauss, K., Ottinger, M., Leinenkugel, P. & Kuenzer, C. Estimating rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, utilizing time series of Sentinel-1 SAR data. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf. 73, 574–585 (2018) in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.