| --- |
| tags: |
| - croissant |
| - remote-sensing |
| - forestry |
| - earth-observation |
| - evo-land |
| - Europe |
| - SSL4EO |
| - Sentinel-2 |
| - Copernicus |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| datasets: |
| - ssl4eo_eu_forest |
| language: |
| - en |
| --- |
| |
| # SSL4EO-EU-Forest |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="center"> |
| <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f8758c91a4135d96b80176/Qi5QpnIMUI1AdX5hSv9zN.png" alt="Sentinel-2 L2A winter scene" width="200"/> |
| <br/> |
| <sub>Sentinel-2 winter scene</sub> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center"> |
| <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f8758c91a4135d96b80176/4Nrz90xyXWoeRJC-K4eSm.png" alt="Sentinel-2 L2A winter scene" width="200"/> |
| <br/> |
| <sub>tree (green) segmentation</sub> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center"> |
| <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f8758c91a4135d96b80176/N5tYT2rSHK_k5y8U7z3EH.png" alt="tree (green) segmentation" width="200"/><br/> |
| <sub>Sentinel-2 summer scene</sub> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center"> |
| <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f8758c91a4135d96b80176/sEsiAbhag9XPqdE7c_7Jq.png" alt="tree (green) segmentation" width="200"/><br/> |
| <sub>tree (green) segmentation</sub> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| ## Introduction |
|
|
| The dataset is an add-on to the globally sampled SSL4EO-S12 pre-training dataset (https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2023.3281651) where `v1.1` is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/embed2scale/SSL4EO-S12-v1.1 with downstream tasks in https://huggingface.co/datasets/embed2scale/SSL4EO-S12-downstream . |
|
|
| ## Data Characteristics |
|
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| *SSL4EO-EU-Forest* assembles an additional downstream task (85 GB) for binary semantic segmentation of forest land cover as follows: |
| - `images/` sub-directory: It curates 16K spatial patches (264x264 pixels) of Sentinel-2 L2A imagery (`UInt16` GeoTIFF, 12 bands upsampled to 10m pixel resolution) over European forests. Each geolocation contains up to four Sentinel-2 timestamps from all seasons (winter, spring, summer, fall) of year 2018. The cloud cover in each scene is below 10%. |
| - `masks/` sub-directory: Forest masks (`0` = non-tree covered areas, `1` = broadleaved forest, `2` = coniferous forest; `Byte` GeoTIFF) have been derived from the 2018 HRL dataset (https://doi.org/10.2909/486f77da-d605-423e-93a9-680760ab6791) available through the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, cf. https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-forests-and-tree-cover/dominant-leaf-type-2018-raster-10-m-europe-yearly . |
| - Data of a geolocation are placed in numbered sub-directories (e.g. `0017618`) of `images/` and `masks/`, respectively. Each of those for the `images/` directory contains four directories indicating the four seasons as per convention by Sentinel-2. For example, `20180520T094031_20180520T094033_T35VMH` denotes the sensing start time as approx. May 20, 2018 at 9.41am UTC (spring scene) for geolocation defined by tile ID `T35VMH` (which the patch was cropped from). General details on Sentinel-2 products in https://sentiwiki.copernicus.eu/web/s2-products . |
|
|
| ## Spatial Coverage |
|
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| <img src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/66f8758c91a4135d96b80176/7dcsK6k5MchJcmikkI-dC.png" alt="Spatial Distribution of SSL4EO-EU-Forest" width="700"/> |
|
|
| ## Access API |
|
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| see https://github.com/cmalbrec/ssl4eo_eu_forest |
|
|
| ## Funding |
|
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| This work was carried under the *EvoLand* project, cf. https://www.evo-land.eu . This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. `101082130`. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{ssl4eo_eu_forest, |
| author = {Braham Ait Ali, Nassim and Albrecht, Conrad M}, |
| title = {SSL4EO-EU Forest Dataset}, |
| year = {2025}, |
| howpublished = {https://github.com/cmalbrec/ssl4eo_eu_forest}, |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17290776} |
| } |
| ``` |
