The EarthView Dataset is a comprehensive collection of multispectral earth imagery. The dataset is divided into four distinct subsets sourced from Satellogic, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 (coming soon), and NEON imagers, each providing unique data.
Each subset (AKA configuration) in the EarthView dataset includes samples representing specific patches of the Earth. Each source (satellite type) has different characteristics, so the details for the samples in each of the subsets are subtly different. We provide a very simple library to access the images in the subsets.
Available Subsets
Name
Samples
Unique locations
Products
Image Resolution
Satellogic
~6 million
~3 million
RGB
1m
NIR (Near Infrared)
1m
Neon
~1 million
~0.3 million
RGB
0.1m
Canopy Height Model (Lidar)
1m
Hyperspectral (369 bands)
1m
Sentinel-1
~5.2 million
~1 million
SAR (mapped to RGB)
10m (from 20m)
Sentinel-2
~10 million
~1 million
RGB
10m
NIR
10m
NIR / Red Edge / SWIR
20m
Scene Classification Layer
20m
Coastal-Aerosol / Water Vapour / Cirrus
40 (from 60m)
Data Format
Each subset has some peculiarities and a specific data format in the dataset. Each item (sample) in the dataset is a dictionary with a metadata field and one or more entries for the different image products available, such as rgb, chm, 1m, 10m (see below). All of the image fields are 4D arrays where dimensions are REVISITS, BANDS, HEIGHT, WIDTH.
We encourage you to use the supplied earthview library to simplify accessing the dataset, metadata and images. (For now, download the single python file and place in the same directory as your scripts, or in Python's path)
Bellow you'll find details for each subset
Satellogic
Metadata
key
description
bounds
[x_min, y_min, x_max, y_max] (bottom-left corner and top-right corner coordinates in (easting, northing) format, WGS 84 / UTM).
list of timestamps corresponding to the capture dates (only date is valid)
['2022-07-21T00:00:00']
['2022-07-21T00:00:00', '2022-07-25T00:00:00']
count
Number of re-visits for the location (not present in the dataset, generated by items_to_images())
1
Images
Satellogic images are captured with Satellogic's MarkIV satellite fleet. The payload produces RGB and NIR images at 1m native resolution (no PAN sharpening). Each sample in the dataset has 1 or 2 re-visits per location.
key
Product
Image Resolution
Size (pixels)
Bands
Re-samples
rgb
RGB
1m
384 x 384
3
1 or 2
1m
NIR
1m
384 x 384
1
1 or 2
Example (Jupyter Notebook)
import numpy as np
import earthview as ev
data = ev.load_dataset("satellogic", shards=[10]) # shard is optional
sample = next(iter(data))
print(sample.keys())
print(np.array(sample['rgb']).shape) # RGB Dataprint(np.array(sample['1m']).shape) # NIR Data
from itertools import islice
import earthview as ev
data = ev.load_dataset("satellogic", shards=[10]) # shard is optional
datai = iter(data)
for sample in islice(datai, 10):
sample = ev.item_to_images("satellogic", sample)
print(sample["metadata"]["bounds"])
sample["rgb"][0].show()
### Sentinel-1
Metadata
key
description
type
'Polygon' Indicates the coordinates are the vertices of a Polygon
Number of re-visits for the location (not present in the dataset, generated by items_to_images())
6
Images
Sentinel-1 carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload. The data (imagery) produced has two channels, for vertical and horizontal polarization. The data in the dataset contains just the two channels, the images returned by item_to_images() implements a standard mapping to return RGB images. (see the example below). Samples in the dataset contain varied numbers of re-visits per location.
key
Product
Image Resolution
Size (pixels)
Bands
Re-samples
10m
RGB
10m
384 x 384
3
1 or 2
Example (Jupyter Notebook)
import numpy as np
import earthview as ev
# data = ev.load_dataset("sentinel_1", shards=[88]) # shard is optional
data = ev.load_parquet("dataset/sentinel_1/train-00088-of-01763.parquet")
sample = next(iter(data))
print(sample.keys())
print(np.array(sample['rgb']).shape) # RGB Dataprint(np.array(sample['10m']).shape) # NIR Data
Number of re-visits for the location (not present in the dataset, generated by items_to_images())
3
Images
The NEON subset is composed of very high resolution RGB images at 0.1m, 1m hyperspectral data (369 bands), and 1m Canopy Height Model out of a LIDAR sensor. Every sample in the dataset contains 3 re-visits.
key
Product
Image Resolution
Size (pixels)
Bands
Re-samples
rgb
RGB
0.1m
640 x 640
3
3
chm
Canopy Height Model
1m
64 x 64
1
3
1m
Hyperspectral
1m
64 x 64
369
3
When using item_to_images() the Hyperspectral images are mapped, from the 369 bands to RGB using a meaningless mapping. Please, don't use it for anything else than an example.
Example (Jupyter Notebook)
import numpy as np
import earthview as ev
data = ev.load_dataset("neon", shards=[100]) # shard is optional# data = ev.load_parquet("neon", batch_size = 10)
sample = next(iter(data))
print(sample.keys())
print(np.array(sample['rgb']).shape) # RGB Dataprint(np.array(sample['chm']).shape) # Canopy Heightprint(np.array(sample['1m']).shape) # Hyperspectral