SD4EO - Physically Based Rendering images of human settlements for solar panel detection

This dataset contains part of the results of the SD4EO project, including images corresponding to the use case of solar panel detection on human settlements. The dataset contains images that have been simulated corresponding to low altitude aerial images. Each image in the dataset includes pixel-level labels for each element present in the image, ensuring perfect accuracy due to the synthetic nature of the images. This eliminates common errors in manual or semi-automatic labeling processes.

Image labeling

(Open Street Map color code)

Element

R

G

B

Road

255

255

255

Building

196

182

171

Highway

232

146

162

Industrial zone

234

203

228

Parking

238

238

238

Railway

112

112

112

Residential zone

224

223

223

Vegetation

174

223

163

Water

170

211

223

For solar panels masks white color is used to mark the pixels corresponding to solar panels.

Image name convention

The name convention follows the next schema of fields, separated by the character “_”

-          ID number

-          Sub ID number

-          Meters per pixel resolution

-          Type of image: color, labels, solarpanels

Creation and funding

All the images have been generated using a tool developed in Unity. This tool will be soon available to enable the generation of new datasets.

This research work has been funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the FutureEO program and the SD4EO project (Contract No.: 4000142334/23/I-DT), supervised by the ESA Φ-lab.

License and attribution

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

When using the images from this dataset, please attribute them as follows: "Synthetic images created by the research group ARTEC - IRTIC - University of Valencia".