A Remote Sensing Image Dataset for Cloud Removal
This addresses the lack of datasets for cloud removal in remote sensing, enabling deep learning applications in this domain, though it is incremental as it focuses on data creation rather than a new method.
The paper tackled the problem of cloud removal in remote sensing images by introducing the RICE dataset, which provides 500 pairs of cloud and cloudless images and 450 sets with cloud masks to facilitate training neural networks for this task.
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}.