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Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping

SN6: Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping

The Problem

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a unique form of radar that can penetrate clouds, collect during all- weather conditions, and capture data day and night. Overhead collects from SAR satellites could be particularly valuable in the quest to aid disaster response in instances where weather and cloud cover can obstruct traditional electro-optical sensors. However, despite these advantages, there is limited open data available to researchers to explore the effectiveness of SAR for such applications, particularly at ultra-high resolutions.

The task of SpaceNet 6 was to automatically extract building footprints with computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms using a combination of SAR and electro-optical imagery datasets. This openly-licensed dataset features a unique combination of half-meter Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from Capella Space and half-meter electro-optical (EO) imagery from Maxar’s WorldView 2 satellite. The area of interest for the challenge was centered over the largest port in Europe: Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This area features thousands of buildings, vehicles, and boats of various sizes, to make an effective test bed for SAR and the fusion of these two types of data.

In this challenge, the training dataset contained both SAR and EO imagery, however, the testing and scoring datasets contained only SAR data. Consequently, the EO data could be used for pre-processing the SAR data in some fashion, such as colorization, domain adaptation, or image translation, but cannot be used to directly map buildings. The dataset was structured to mimic real-world scenarios where historical EO data may be available, but concurrent EO collection with SAR is often not possible due to inconsistent orbits of the sensors, or cloud cover that will render the EO data unusable.

AWS GPU Credits

The first 30 registrants with a submission equaling or exceeding the set performance threshold received a credit for 10 hours on a p3.2xlarge for training and improving their models.

The Data – Over 120 sq km of both high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and electro optical (EO) imagery with ~48,000 building footprint labels of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

AOI Area of Raster (Sq. Km) Building Footprint Labels (Km)
AOI_11_Rotterdam 120 48,000

Catalog

The data is hosted on AWS as a Public Dataset. It is free to download, but an AWS account is required.
aws s3 ls s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/

Training Data

AOI 11 – Rotterdam – Buildings

To download processed ~450mx450m tiles with associated buildings footprint labels of AOI 11 Rotterdam (39.0 GB):

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_train.tar.gz . 

Testing Data

AOI 11 – Rotterdam – Buildings

To download processed 450mx450m tiles of AOI 11 Rotterdam (16.9 GB):

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_test_public.tar.gz .

Expanded Dataset

In September 2020, the SpaceNet partners released an expanded version of the SpaceNet 6 dataset. The dataset is untiled and distributed in its maximum extent to enable research using combinations of SAR and optical imagery. All of the SAR data comes from Capella Space’s X-band quad-pol sensor mounted on an aircraft. We distribute 202 SAR image strips in two formats: one with minimal pre-processing (Single Look Complex) as well as a second set of new six-band georeferenced products that include 4 channels of intensity and 2 channels derived from a Pauli decomposition. The decomposition channels show different types of scattering behavior. Many of these strips overlap to create a dense stack of SAR data with multiple revisits spanning a three-day time period in August 2019. The extent of these image strips covers a large portion of Rotterdam and 120 km² of total area, with each strip spanning approximately 0.7 km by 10 km.

Complimentary to our SAR data, we also release our untiled Maxar WorldView 2 image spanning ~92 km² at 0.5m spatial resolution. We distribute 4 image products including the panchromatic band, pan-sharpened RGB and RGBNIR data (0.5m) and RGBNIR data (2.0m). As in the challenge, we hold back the optical data over the final testing area but distribute these optical data for validation and training.

Visit our blog for more information on the SpaceNet 6 Expanded Dataset.

AOI 11 – Rotterdam – Buildings

To explore the full expanded dataset in AOI 11 Rotterdam:

aws s3 ls s3://spacenet-dataset/AOIs/AOI_11_Rotterdam/ 

The Metric

In the SpaceNet Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping Challenge, the metric for ranking entries was the SpaceNet Metric. This metric is an F1-Score based on the intersection over union of two building footprints with a threshold of 0.5 F1-Score is calculated by taking the total True Positives, False Positives, and False Negatives for the total number of building footprints present in the testing datasets.

Citation Instructions

Shermeyer, J., Hogan, D., Brown, J., Etten, A.V., Weir, N., Pacifici, F., Hänsch, R., Bastidas, A., Soenen, S., Bacastow, T.M., & Lewis, R. (2020). SpaceNet 6: Multi-Sensor All Weather Mapping Dataset. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 768-777.

License

Rotterdam

Datasets // Rotterdam

SpaceNet AOI 11 – Rotterdam

Maxar Catalog ID: 1030050092F8EC00
Image Time: 2019-08-31

Capella Collection: 204 image strips
Image Time: 2019-08-04, 2019-08-22, 2019-08-23

Download Instructions

To view the contents of the training dataset

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_train.tar.gz .

Download Instructions

To view the contents of the testing dataset

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_test_public.tar.gz .

SpaceNet Simple Storage Service (S3) Directory Structure (AOI 11)

spacenet
└── SN6_buildings
    │ 
    ├── train/AOI_11_Rotterdam
    │   │
    │   ├── SAR-Intensity	# Tiled geotiffs of 4-Band Quad-Polarized (HH, HV, VH, VV) raster data displaying intensity of backscatter in decibels from Capella’s aerial collect. 
    │   ├── MS      		# Tiled geotiffs of 4-Band Multi-Spectral raster data from Maxar WorldView-2
    │   ├── PAN     		# Tiled geotiffs of Panchromatic raster data from Maxar WorldView-2
    │   ├── PS-MS		# Tiled geotiffs of 4-Band Multi-Spectral raster data pan-sharpened to 0.5m from Maxar WorldView-2
    │   ├── PS-RGB		# Tiled 8-bit color-corrected geotiffs of RGB raster data from Maxar WorldView-2 pan-sharpened to 0.5m
    │   ├── geojson_buildings   # GeoJson labels of building footprints for each tile
    │   └── SummaryData	        # CSV of building footprint locations in pixel coordinates and orientation file indicating the directions from which each SAR image is captured (0 North, 1 South).
    │
    ├── test_public/AOI_11_Rotterdam
    │   │
    │   └── SAR-Intensity	# Tiled geotiffs of 4-Band Quad-Polarized (HH, HV, VH, VV) raster data displaying intensity of backscatter in decibels from Capella’s aerial collect. 
    │
    └── tarballs
        │
        ├── SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_train.tar.gz            # Tarball of all training data (40 GB)
        └── SN6_buildings_AOI_11_Rotterdam_test_public.tar.gz	   # Tarball of all public test data (17 GB) 

Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping – OLD

SN6: Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping

The Problem

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a unique form of radar that can penetrate clouds, collect during all- weather conditions, and capture data day and night. Overhead collects from SAR satellites could be particularly valuable in the quest to aid disaster response in instances where weather and cloud cover can obstruct traditional electro-optical sensors. However, despite these advantages, there is limited open data available to researchers to explore the effectiveness of SAR for such applications, particularly at ultra-high resolutions.

The task of SpaceNet 6 is to automatically extract building footprints with computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms using a combination of SAR and electro-optical imagery datasets. This openly-licensed dataset features a unique combination of half-meter Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from Capella Space and half-meter electro-optical (EO) imagery from Maxar’s WorldView 2 satellite. The area of interest for this challenge will be centered over the largest port in Europe: Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This area features thousands of buildings, vehicles, and boats of various sizes, to make an effective test bed for SAR and the fusion of these two types of data.

In this challenge, the training dataset contains both SAR and EO imagery, however, the testing and scoring datasets contain only SAR data. Consequently, the EO data can be used for pre-processing the SAR data in some fashion, such as colorization, domain adaptation, or image translation, but cannot be used to directly map buildings. The dataset is structured to mimic real-world scenarios where historical EO data may be available, but concurrent EO collection with SAR is often not possible due to inconsistent orbits of the sensors, or cloud cover that will render the EO data unusable.

Check back on February 18 when pre-registration for the challenge opens on Topcoder!

The Data – Over 120 sq km of both high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and electro optical (EO) imagery with ~48,000 building footprint labels of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

AOI Area of Raster (Sq. Km) Building Footprint Labels (Km)
AOI_11_Rotterdam 120 48,000

Catalog

The data is hosted on AWS as a Public Dataset. It is free to download, but an AWS account is required.
aws s3 ls s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/

Training Data

AOI 11 – Rotterdam – Buildings

To download processed ~450mx450m tiles with associated buildings footprint labels of AOI 11 Rotterdam (39.0 GB):

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/train.tar.gz .

Testing Data

AOI 11 – Rotterdam – Buildings

To download processed 450mx450m tiles of AOI 11 Rotterdam (16.9 GB):

aws s3 cp s3://spacenet-dataset/spacenet/SN6_buildings/tarballs/test_public.tar.gz .

The Metric

In the SpaceNet Multi-Sensor All-Weather Mapping Challenge, the metric for ranking entries is the SpaceNet Metric. This metric is an F1-Score based on the intersection over union of two building footprints with a threshold of 0.5 F1-Score is calculated by taking the total True Positives, False Positives, and False Negatives for the total number of building footprints present in the testing datasets.

License