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Lidar and imagery data were acquired over several years in distinct programs, and up to 3 years might separate them. The years of acquisition are given as metadata.
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## Dataset content
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The PureForest dataset consists of a total of 135,569 patches: 69111 in the train set, 13523 in the val set, and 52935 in the test set.
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Band order is near-infrared, red, greeb, blue. For convenience, the Lidar point clouds are vertically colorized with the aerial images.
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### Annotations
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Annotations were made at the forest level, and considering only monospecific forests. A semi-automatic approach was adopted in which forest polygons
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### Dataset extent and train/val/test split
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The polygons were sampled in southern France due to the partial availability of the Lidar data at the time of dataset creation.
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To define a common benchmark, we divided the data into train, val, and test sets, with a stratification on semantic labels.
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Annotation polygons are scattered across southern France, leading to a good geographical diversity within each semantic class.
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To account for the high spatial autocorrelation, the 70%-15%-15% split is performed at the annotation polygon level:
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each forest exclusively belongs to either the train, val, or test set.
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This makes PureForest suitable to evaluate the territorial generalization of classification models.
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Please include a citation to the following Data Paper if PureForest was useful to your research:
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title={PureForest: A Large-scale Aerial Lidar and Aerial Imagery Dataset for Tree Species Classification in Monospecific Forests},
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author={Gaydon
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year={2024},
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url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12064}
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Lidar and imagery data were acquired over several years in distinct programs, and up to 3 years might separate them. The years of acquisition are given as metadata.
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## Dataset content
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The PureForest dataset consists of a total of 135,569 patches: 69111 in the train set, 13523 in the val set, and 52935 in the test set.
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Band order is near-infrared, red, greeb, blue. For convenience, the Lidar point clouds are vertically colorized with the aerial images.
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VHR Aerial images (Near-Infrared, Red, Green) [ORTHO HR] | ALS points clouds [Lidar HD]
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### Annotations
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Annotations were made at the forest level, and considering only monospecific forests. A semi-automatic approach was adopted in which forest polygons
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### Dataset extent and train/val/test split
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The annotation polygons were mostly sampled in the southern half of metropolitan France due to the partial availability of the Lidar HD data at the time of dataset creation.
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They are scattered in 40 distinct French administrative departments and span a large diversity of territories and forests within each semantic class.
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To define a common benchmark, we split the data into train, val, and test sets (70%-15%-15%) with stratification on semantic labels.
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We address the high spatial autocorrelation inherent to geographic data by splitting at the annotation polygon level:
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Please include a citation to the following Data Paper if PureForest was useful to your research:
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@misc{gaydon2024pureforest,
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title={PureForest: A Large-scale Aerial Lidar and Aerial Imagery Dataset for Tree Species Classification in Monospecific Forests},
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author={Charles Gaydon and Floryne Roche},
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year={2024},
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eprint={2404.12064},
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archivePrefix={arXiv},
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url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12064}
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primaryClass={cs.CV}
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