Datasets:
license: cc-by-4.0
Remote Sensing Dataset: Substation Dataset
Description
This dataset is curated by TransitionZero and sourced from publicly available data repositories, including OpenSreetMap (OSMF) and Copernicus Sentinel data. The dataset consists of Sentinel-2 images from 27k+ locations; the task is to segment power-substations, which appear in the majority of locations in the dataset. Most locations have 4-5 images taken at different timepoints (i.e., revisits) and each image is of dimension 228x228 pixels. Each image has 13 spectral bands and each band has been linearly interpolated to a spatial resolution of 10m. Lastly, there is one ground truth mask for each location.
Key Features
- Source: OpenSreetMap (OSMF) and Copernicus Sentinel data
- Resolution: 10m per pixel
- Bands: 13 Sentinel-2 Bands
- Size: Approximately 70GB
We utilize this dataset in this project. In this work, we focus on an applied research question of relevance to climate change mitigation -- power substation segmentation -- that is representative of applied uses of pre-trained models more generally. Through extensive tests of different multi-temporal input schemes across diverse model architectures, we find that fusing representations from multiple revisits in the model latent space is superior to other methods of using revisits, including as a form of data augmentation. We also find that a SWIN Transformer-based architecture performs better than U-nets and ViT-based models.