A Remote Sensing Image Dataset for Cloud Removal

TL;DR

This paper introduces the RICE dataset, a large collection of remote sensing images with and without clouds, to facilitate deep learning-based cloud removal in satellite imagery.

Contribution

The paper provides the first comprehensive dataset for training deep learning models to remove clouds from remote sensing images.

Findings

Dataset includes 950 image pairs and sets with cloud, cloudless, and mask images.

Enables development of deep learning methods for cloud removal.

Facilitates future research in remote sensing image pre-processing.

Abstract

Cloud-based overlays are often present in optical remote sensing images, thus limiting the application of acquired data. Removing clouds is an indispensable pre-processing step in remote sensing image analysis. Deep learning has achieved great success in the field of remote sensing in recent years, including scene classification and change detection. However, deep learning is rarely applied in remote sensing image removal clouds. The reason is the lack of data sets for training neural networks. In order to solve this problem, this paper first proposed the Remote sensing Image Cloud rEmoving dataset (RICE). The proposed dataset consists of two parts: RICE1 contains 500 pairs of images, each pair has images with cloud and cloudless size of 512*512; RICE2 contains 450 sets of images, each set contains three 512*512 size images. , respectively, the reference picture without clouds, the picture of the cloud and the mask of its cloud. The dataset is freely available at \url{https://github.com/BUPTLdy/RICE_DATASET}.