Remote sensing of environment research has explored the benefits of using synthetic aperture radar imagery systems for a wide range of land and marine applications since these systems are not affected by weather conditions and therefore are operable both daytime and nighttime. The design of image processing techniques for synthetic aperture radar applications requires tests and validation on real and synthetic images. The GRSS benchmark database supports the desing and analysis of algorithms to deal with SAR and PolSAR data.
This dataset contains 291 coregistered image pairs of RGB aerial images from IGS's BD ORTHO database. Pixel-level change and land cover annotations are provided, generated by rasterizing Urban Atlas 2006, Urban Atlas 2012, and Urban Atlas Change 2006-2012 maps.
Subpixel classification (SPC) extracts meaningful information on land-cover classes from the mixed pixels.However, the major challenges for SPC are to obtain reliable soft reference data (RD), use apt input data, and achieve maximum accuracy. This article addresses these issues and applies the support vector machine (SVM) to retrieve the subpixel estimates of glacier facies (GF) using high radiometric-resolution Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) data. Precise quantification of GF has fundamental importance in the glaciological research.
Along with the increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), large volumes of aerial videos have been produced. It is unrealistic for humans to screen such big data and understand their contents. Hence methodological research on the automatic understanding of UAV videos is of paramount importance.
Beijing Building Dataset(BGB) is an elevation satellite image dataset which is integrated by satellite image and aerial photograph for building detection and identification. It contains 2000 images from Google Earth History Map of five different areas in Beijing on November 24th, 2016, and all these images are 512*512 in resolution ratio with a precision of 0.458m. It covers more than 100 km2 geographic areas of Beijing both in suburbs and urban areas.
The data relates to a study that captured deciduous broadleaf Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs) from the visible through shortwave-infrared (SWIR) spectral regions (350-2500 nm) and accurately modeled the BRDF for extension to any illumination angle, viewing zenith, or azimuthal angle. Measurements were made from three species of large trees, Norway maple (Acer platanoides), American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), and northern red oak (Quercus rubra).
The data made available are the simulations of a time-resolved Monte Carlo model for use in quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of different types of particle atmospheres.
Research on damage detection of road surfaces has been an active area of research, but most studies have focused so far on the detection of the presence of damages. However, in real-world scenarios, road managers need to clearly understand the type of damage and its extent in order to take effective action in advance or to allocate the necessary resources. Moreover, currently there are few uniform and openly available road damage datasets, leading to a lack of a common benchmark for road damage detection.
