RarePlanes is a unique open-source machine learning dataset from CosmiQ Works and AI.Reverie that incorporates both real and synthetically generated satellite imagery. The RarePlanes dataset specifically focuses on the value of AI.Reverie synthetic data to aid computer vision algorithms in their ability to automatically detect aircraft and their attributes in satellite imagery.

Data Collection

The real portion of the dataset consists of 253 Maxar WorldView-3 satellite images spanning 112 locations with ~14,700 hand annotated aircraft. The accompanying synthetic dataset is generated via AI.Reverie¡¯s simulation platform and features 50,000 synthetic satellite images with over 600,000 aircraft annotations. Both the real and synthetically generated aircraft feature 10 fine grain attributes including: aircraft length, wingspan, wing-shape, wing-position, FAA wingspan class, propulsion, number of engines, number of vertical-stabilizers, if it has canards, and aircraft role.