Awesome Satellite Imagery Datasets

List of aerial and satellite imagery datasets with annotations for computer vision and deep learning. Newest datasets at the top of each category (Instance segmentation, object detection, semantic segmentation, scene classification, other).

1. Instance Segmentation

Microsoft BuildingFootprints Canada & USA (Microsoft, Mar 2019)
12.6mil (Canada) & 125.2mil (USA) building footprints, GeoJSON format, delineation based on Bing imagery using ResNet34 architecture.
Spacenet Challenge Round 4 - Off-nadir (CosmiQ Works, DigitalGlobe, Radiant Solutions, AWS, Dec 2018)
126k building footprints (Atlanta), 27 WorldView 2 images (0.3m res.) from 7-54 degrees off-nadir angle. Bi-cubicly resampled to same number of pixels in each image to counter courser native resolution with higher off-nadir angles, Paper: Weir et al. 2019
Airbus Ship Detection Challenge (Airbus, Nov 2018)
131k ships, 104k train / 88k test image chips, satellite imagery (1.5m res.), raster mask labels in in run-length encoding format, Kaggle kernels.
Open AI Challenge: Tanzania (WeRobotics & Wordlbank, Nov 2018)
Building footprints & 3 building conditions, RGB UAV imagery - Link to data
Netherlands LPIS agricultural field boundaries (Netherlands Department for Economic Affairs)
294 crop/vegetation catgeories, 780k parcels, yearly dataset for 2009-2018. Open the atom feed downloadlinks with Firefox etc., not Chrome.
Denmark LPIS agricultural field boundaries (Denmark Department for Agriculture)
293 crop/vegetation catgeories, 600k parcels, yearly dataset for 2008-2018
CrowdAI Mapping Challenge (Humanity & Inclusion NGO, May 2018)
Buildings footprints, RGB satellite imagery, COCO data format
Spacenet Challenge Round 2 - Buildings (CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solutions, NVIDIA, May 2017)
685k building footprints, 3/8band Worldview-3 imagery (0.3m res.), 5 cities, SpaceNet Challenge Asset Library
Spacenet Challenge Round 1 - Buildings (CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solutions, NVIDIA, Jan 2017)
Building footprints (Rio de Janeiro), 3/8band Worldview-3 imagery (0.5m res.), SpaceNet Challenge Asset Library

2. Object Detection

DOTA: Large-scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images v1.5 (Wuhan University, Jun 2019)
15 categories from plane to bridge, 188k instances, Google Earth image chips, Faster-RCNN baseline model (MXNet), DOTA development kit, Academic use only, Paper: Xia et al. 2018
xView 2018 Detection Challenge (DIUx, Jul 2018)
60 categories from helicopter to stadium, 1 million instances, Worldview-3 imagery (0.3m res.), COCO data format, pre-trained Tensorflow and Pytorch baseline models, Paper: Lam et al. 2018
Open AI Challenge: Aerial Imagery of South Pacific Islands (WeRobotics & Worldbank, May 2018)
Tree position & 4 tree species, RGB UAV imagery (0.4m/0.8m res.), multiple AOIs in Tonga
NIST DSE Plant Identification with NEON Remote Sensing Data (inria.fr, Oct 2017)
Tree position, tree species and crown parameters, hyperspectral (1m res.) & RGB imagery (0.25m res.), LiDAR point cloud and canopy height model
NOAA Fisheries Steller Sea Lion Population Count (NOAA, Jun 2017)
5 sea lion categories, ~ 80k instances, ~ 1k aerial images, Kaggle kernels
Spacenet Rio De Janeiro Points of Interest Dataset (CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solutions, Jan 2017)
460 categories from airfield to internet cafes, 120k points (11k manually confirmed), 3/8band Worldview-3 imagery (0.5m res.), SpaceNet Challenge Asset Library
Stanford Drone Data (Stanford University, Oct 2016)
60 aerial UAV videos over Stanford campus and bounding box. 6 classes (Pedestrian, Biker, Skateboarder, Cart, Car, Bus), Paper: Robicquet et al. 2016
Cars Overhead With Context (COWC) (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sep 2016)
32k car bounding boxes, aerial imagery (0.15m res.), 6 cities, Paper: Mundhenk et al. 2016

3. Semantic Segmentation

SEN12MS (TUM, Jun 2019)
180,748 corresponding image triplets containing Sentinel-1 (VV&VH), Sentinel-2 (all bands, cloud-free), and MODIS-derived land cover maps (IGBP, LCCS, 17 classes, 500m res.). All data upsampled to 10m res., georeferenced, covering all continents and meterological seasons, Paper: Schmitt et al. 2018
Slovenia Land Cover Classification (Sinergise, Feb 2019)
10 land cover classes, temporal stack of hyperspectral Sentinel-2 imagery (R,G,B,NIR,SWIR1,SWIR2; 10 m res.) for year 2017 with cloud masks, Official Slovenian land use land cover layer as ground truth.
38-Cloud: A Cloud Segmentation Dataset (S. Mohajerani et. all, Jan 2019)
17600 manually segmented 384x384 patches with cloud masks, Landsat 8 imagery (R,G,B,NIR; 30 m res.), Paper: Mohajerani et al. 2019
Agricultural Crop Cover Classification Challenge (CrowdANALYTIX, Jul 2018)
2 main categories corn and soybeans, Landsat 8 imagery (30m res.), USDA Cropland Data Layer as ground truth.
Spacenet Challenge Round 3 - Roads (CosmiQ Works, Radiant Solutions, Feb 2018)
8000 km of roads in 5 city aois, 3/8band Worldview-3 imagery (0.3m res.), SpaceNet Challenge Asset Library, Paper: Van Etten et al. 2018
Urban 3D Challenge (USSOCOM, Dec 2017)
157k building footprint masks, RGB orthophotos (0.5m res.), DSM/DTM, 3 cities, SpaceNet Challenge Asset Library
DSTL Satellite Imagery Feature Detection Challenge (Dstl, Feb 2017)
10 land cover categories from crops to vehicle small, 57 1x1km images, 3/16-band Worldview 3 imagery (0.3m-7.5m res.), Kaggle kernels
Inria Aerial Image Labeling (inria.fr)
Building footprint masks, RGB aerial imagery (0.3m res.), 5 cities
ISPRS Potsdam 2D Semantic Labeling Contest (ISPRS)
6 urban land cover classes, raster mask labels, 4-band RGB-IR aerial imagery (0.05m res.) & DSM, 38 image patches

4. Scene classification (Chip/Image recognition)

BigEarthNet: Large-Scale Sentinel-2 Benchmark (TU Berlin, Jan 2019)
Multiple landcover labels per chip based on CORINE Land Cover (CLC) 2018, 590,326 chips from Sentinel-2 L2A scenes (125 Sentinel-2 tiles from 10 European countries, 2017/2018), 66 GB archive, Paper: Sumbul et al. 2019
WiDS Datathon 2019 : Detection of Oil Palm Plantations (Global WiDS Team & West Big Data Innovation Hub, Jan 2019) Prediction of presence of oil palm plantations, Planet satellite imagery (3m res.)., ca. 20k 256 x 256 pixel chips, 2 categories oil-palm and other, annotator confidence score.
So2Sat LCZ42 (TUM Munich & DLR, Aug 2018)
Local climate zone classification, 17 categories (10 urban e.g. compact high-rise, 7 rural e.g. scattered trees), 400k 32x32 pixel chips covering 42 cities (LCZ42 dataset), Sentinel 1 & Sentinel 2 (both 10m res.), 51 GB
Statoil/C-CORE Iceberg Classifier Challenge (Statoil/C-CORE, Jan 2018)
2 categories ship and iceberg, 2-band HH/HV polarization SAR imagery, Kaggle kernels
Functional Map of the World Challenge (IARPA, Dec 2017)
63 categories from solar farms to shopping malls, 1 million chips, 4/8 band satellite imagery (0.3m res.), COCO data format, baseline models, Paper: Christie et al. 2017
EuroSAT (DFK, Aug 2017)
10 land cover categories from industrial to permanent crop, 27k 64x64 pixel chips, 3/16 band Sentinel-2 satellite imagery (10m res.), covering cities in 30 countries, Paper: Helber et al. 2017
Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space (Planet, Jul 2017)
13 land cover categories + 4 cloud condition categories, 4-band (RGB-NIR) satelitte imagery (5m res.), Amazonian rainforest, Kaggle kernels
RESISC45 (Northwestern Polytechnical University NWPU, Mar 2017)
45 scene categories from airplane to wetland, 31,500 images (700 per category, 256x256 px), image chips taken from Google Earth (rich image variations in resolution, angle, geography all over the world), Paper: Cheng et al. 2017
Deepsat: SAT-4/SAT-6 airborne datasets (Louisiana State University, 2015)
6 land cover categories, 400k 28x28 pixel chips, 4-band RGBNIR aerial imagery (1m res.) extracted from the 2009 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), Paper: Basu et al. 2015
UC Merced Land Use Dataset (UC Merced, Oct 2010)
21 land cover categories from agricultural to parkinglot, 100 chips per class, aerial imagery (0.30m res.), Paper: Yang & Newsam 2010

5. Other Focus / Multiple Tasks