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Data description paper |
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Multi-resolution dataset for photovoltaic panel segmentation from satellite and aerial imagery
Hou Jiang
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory,
Guangzhou 511458, China
Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical
Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing Normal University,
Nanjing 210023, China
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory,
Guangzhou 511458, China
Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical
Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing Normal University,
Nanjing 210023, China
Jun Qin
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory,
Guangzhou 511458, China
Tang Liu
School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences
(Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Yujun Liu
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Provincial Geomatics Center of Jiangsu, Nanjing 210013, China
Chenghu Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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A multi-resolution (0.8, 0.3, and 0.1 m) photovoltaic (PV) dataset is established using satellite and aerial images. The dataset contains 3716 samples of PVs installed on various land and rooftop types. The dataset can support multi-scale PV segmentation (e.g., concentrated PVs, distributed ground PVs, and fine-grained rooftop PVs) and cross applications between different resolutions (e.g., from satellite to aerial samples and vice versa), as well as other research related to PVs.
A multi-resolution (0.8, 0.3, and 0.1 m) photovoltaic (PV) dataset is established using...
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