The availability of radio detection and ranging (RADAR) remote sensing data has changed the Earth observation Earth observation by allowing information to be obtained independently of the weather and environmental conditions. RADAR-based satellites, such as Sentinel-1 Sentinel-1 and SCATSAT SCATSAT , are beneficial because they can penetrate clouds and work regardless of whether it is night or day, making them indispensable surface mapping sensors. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite is a RADAR-based Earth observation satellite whose dual-polarization (vertical-vertical and vertical-horizontal VV and VH ) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides high temporal resolution with adequate spatial resolution that makes it suitable for monitoring land use and land cover land cover (LULC) changes. The study area in this research is Kota district, situated in the southeastern part of Rajasthan, India, which has a semiarid climate and a mixed area of agriculture, natural vegetation, and waterbodies. Google Earth Engine was used to process and classify Sentinel-1 data collected from February 1, 2024, to February 27, 2024, into several LULC categories, including water, built-up, and land. This study uses random forest, an ensemble machine learning machine learning (ML) model, for LULC classification. When used to create a land use classification map, it exhibited an overall accuracy overall accuracy (OA) of 90.57% and a kappa coefficient of 85.81%, demonstrating near-perfect agreement between the model and actual data. Abstract The availability of radio detection and ranging (RADAR) remote sensing data has changed the Earth observation Earth observation by allowing information to be obtained independently of the weather and environmental conditions. RADAR-based satellites, such as Sentinel-1 Sentinel-1 and SCATSAT SCATSAT , are beneficial because they can penetrate clouds and work regardless of whether it is night or day, making them indispensable surface mapping sensors. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite is a RADAR-based Earth observation satellite whose dual-polarization (vertical-vertical and vertical-horizontal VV and VH ) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides high temporal resolution with adequate spatial resolution that makes it suitable for monitoring land use and land cover land cover (LULC) changes. The study area in this research is Kota district, situated in the southeastern part of Rajasthan, India, which has a semiarid climate and a mixed area of agriculture, natural vegetation, and waterbodies. Google Earth Engine was used to process and classify Sentinel-1 data collected from February 1, 2024, to February 27, 2024, into several LULC categories, including water, built-up, and land. This study uses random forest, an ensemble machine learning machine learning (ML) model, for LULC classification. When used to create a land use classification map, it exhibited an overall accuracy overall accuracy (OA) of 90.57% and a kappa coefficient of 85.81%, demonstrating near-perfect agreement between the model and actual data.