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It is characterized by two modalities: high density aerial Lidar point clouds with a density of 10 pulses per square meter,
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and high resolution aerial imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.2 m.
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This dataset includes 135,569 patches, each measuring
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Each patch represents a monospecific forest,
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The proposed classification
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A reference train/val/test split is provided.
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## Dataset Structure
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The PureForest dataset consists of a total of 135,569 patches: 69111 in the train set, 13523 in the
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Each patch includes a high-resolution aerial image (
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Band order is
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Lidar and imagery data were acquired over several years in distinct programs, and consequently they are asynchrone: depending on the location, up to 3 years might separate them.
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## Annotations
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were selected and then curated by expert photointerpreters from the IGN. The annotation polygons came from the [BD Forêt](https://inventaire-forestier.ign.fr/spip.php?article646),
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a forest vector database of tree species occupation in France. Ground truths from the
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were also used to improve the condidence in the purity of the forests.
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| Class | Train (%) | Val (%) | Test (%) |
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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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They are located in 40 distinct French administrative departments, covering a large diversity of territories and forests.
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To define a common benchmark, we divided the data into train,
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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 split is performed at the annotation polygon level:
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each forest exclusively belongs to either the train,
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This makes PureForest suitable to evaluate the territorial generalization of classification models.
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We aimed for a 70%-15%-15% split across the train, validation, and test sets, respectively.
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Approximate positions of forests in PureForest
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@article{gaydon2024pureforest,
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title={PureForest: A
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author={Charles Gaydon and
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year={2024},
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doi={TBD},
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}
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It is characterized by two modalities: high density aerial Lidar point clouds with a density of 10 pulses per square meter,
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and high resolution aerial imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.2 m.
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This dataset includes 135,569 patches, each measuring 50 m x 50 m, covering a cumulative exploitable area of 339 km².
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Each patch represents a monospecific forest, annotated with a single tree species labeled to facilitate classification tasks.
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The proposed classification has 13 semantic classes, hierarchically grouping 18 tree species from 9 different tree genera.
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A reference train/val/test split is provided.
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## Dataset Structure
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<hr style='margin-top:-1em; margin-bottom:0' />
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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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Each patch includes a high-resolution aerial image (250 pixels x 250 pixels) at 0.2 m resolution, and a point cloud of high density aerial Lidar (10 pulses/m², ~40pts/m²).
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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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Lidar and imagery data were acquired over several years in distinct programs, and consequently they are asynchrone: depending on the location, up to 3 years might separate them.
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## Annotations
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<hr style='margin-top:-1em; margin-bottom:0' />
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Annotations were made at the forest level, and considering only monospecific forests. A semi-automatic approach was adopted in which pure forest polygons
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were selected and then curated by expert photointerpreters from the IGN. The annotation polygons came from the [BD Forêt](https://inventaire-forestier.ign.fr/spip.php?article646),
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a forest vector database of tree species occupation in France. Ground truths from the [French National Forest Inventory](https://inventaire-forestier.ign.fr/?lang=en)
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were also used to improve the condidence in the purity of the forests.
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| Class | Train (%) | Val (%) | Test (%) |
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<hr style='margin-top:-1em; margin-bottom:0' />
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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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They are located in 40 distinct French administrative departments, covering a large diversity of territories and forests.
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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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Approximate positions of forests in PureForest:
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```
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@article{gaydon2024pureforest,
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title={PureForest: A Novel Dataset and Benchmarks for Tree Species Classification in Monospecific Forests from Aerial Lidar and Aerial Images},
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author={Charles Gaydon and Floryne Roche},
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year={2024},
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doi={TBD},
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}
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