AI4SmallFarms: A Data Set for Crop Field Delineation in Southeast Asian Smallholder Farms

Agricultural field polygons within smallholder farming systems are essential to facilitate the collection of geo-spatial data useful for farmers, managers, and policymakers. However, the limited availability of training labels poses a challenge in developing supervised methods to accurately delineate field boundaries using Earth Observation (EO) data. This data set allows researchers to test and benchmark machine learning methods to delineate agricultural field boundaries in polygon format. The large-scale data set consists of 439,001 field polygons divided into 62 tiles of approximately 5×5 km distributed across Vietnam and Cambodia, covering a range of fields and diverse landscape types. The field polygons have been meticulously digitized from satellite images, following a rigorous multi-step quality control process and topological consistency checks. Multi-temporal composites of Sentinel-2 (S2) images are provided to ensure cloud-free data. We anticipate that this large-scale data set will enable researchers to further enhance the delineation of agricultural fields in smallholder farms and support achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xy6-ngg6
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-0r-p024
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:321745
Provenance
Creator Persello, C ORCID logo; Grift, J ORCID logo; Fan, X; Paris, C
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Hänsch, R; Koeva, M. N.; Nelson, A.; Persello, C; Grift, J; Fan, X; Paris, C; Nelson, A; Prof. Dr. Ir. C Persello (University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)); J Grift (University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)); Dr. X Fan (Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)); Dr. Ir. C Paris (University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)); Dr. R Hänsch (German Aerospace Center (DLR)); Dr. M. N. Koeva (University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)); Prof. Dr. A Nelson (University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC))
Publication Year 2023
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Other
Spatial Coverage Vietnam; Cambodia