Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-113-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-113-2023
Data description paper
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09 Jan 2023
Data description paper |  | 09 Jan 2023

MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing

Jingliang Hu, Rong Liu, Danfeng Hong, Andrés Camero, Jing Yao, Mathias Schneider, Franz Kurz, Karl Segl, and Xiao Xiang Zhu

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Multimodal data fusion is an intuitive strategy to break the limitation of individual data in Earth observation. Here, we present a multimodal data set, named MDAS, consisting of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), multispectral, hyperspectral, digital surface model (DSM), and geographic information system (GIS) data for the city of Augsburg, Germany, along with baseline models for resolution enhancement, spectral unmixing, and land cover classification, three typical remote sensing applications.
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