The temporal variability in calving front positions of marine-terminating glaciers permits inference on the frontal ablation. Frontal ablation, the sum of the calving rate and the melt rate at the terminus, significantly contributes to the mass balance of glaciers. Therefore, the glacier area has been declared as an Essential Climate Variable product by the World Meteorological Organization. The presented dataset provides the necessary information for training deep learning techniques to automate the process of calving front delineation. The dataset includes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images of seven glaciers distributed around the globe. Five of them are located in Antarctica: Crane, Dinsmoore-Bombardier-Edgeworth, Mapple, Jorum and the Sjörgen-Inlet Glacier. The remaining glaciers are the Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier in Greenland and the Columbia Glacier in Alaska. Several images were taken for each glacier, forming a time series. The time series lie in the time span between 1995 an
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ISOD contains 2,000 manually labelled RGB-D images from 20 diverse sites, each featuring over 30 types of small objects randomly placed amidst the items already present in the scenes. These objects, typically ≤3cm in height, include LEGO blocks, rags, slippers, gloves, shoes, cables, crayons, chalk, glasses, smartphones (and their cases), fake banana peels, fake pet waste, and piles of toilet paper, among others. These items were chosen because they either threaten the safe operation of indoor mobile robots or create messes if run over.
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The availability of well-curated datasets has driven the success of Machine Learning (ML) models. Despite greater access to earth observation data in agriculture, there is a scarcity of curated and labelled datasets, which limits the potential of its use in training ML models for remote sensing (RS) in agriculture. To this end, we introduce a first-of-its-kind dataset called SICKLE, which constitutes a time-series of multi-resolution imagery from 3 distinct satellites: Landsat-8, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. Our dataset constitutes multi-spectral, thermal and microwave sensors during January 2018 - March 2021 period. We construct each temporal sequence by considering the cropping practices followed by farmers primarily engaged in paddy cultivation in the Cauvery Delta region of Tamil Nadu, India; and annotate the corresponding imagery with key cropping parameters at multiple resolutions (i.e. 3m, 10m and 30m). Our dataset comprises 2, 370 season-wise samples from 388 unique plots, having
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