FUSAR-Ship Dataset version 1.0

copyright at Fudan University March 2020

1. Introcution

FUSAR-Ship is an open SAR-AIS matchup dataset of Gaofen-3 satellite propared by the Key Lab of Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE) of Fudan University. Gaofen-3 (GF-3) is China’s first civil C-Band fully polarimetric spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) primarily missioned for ocean remote sensing and marine monitoring. The FUSAR-Ship dataset is constructed by the proposed automatic SAR-AIS matchup procedure on over 100 GF-3 scenes covering a large variety of sea, land, coast, river and island scenarios. It includs over 5000 ship image chips with AIS messages (AIS: automatic identification system) and some other types of marine targets and background clutters. FUSAR-Ship is intended as an open benchmark dataset for ship and marine target detection and recognition.

2. Structure

- All image chips are 512x512 boxes cropped from the original GF-3 L1A images. The ship is always located at the center, but the chip may include nearby ships or other objects. These image chips are stored under subfolder named after its 'category/subcategory'. The filename of each sample follows the convention: Ship_CxxSyyNzzzz.tiff, where xx is the index of category, yy is the index of subcategory and zzzz is the index of this particular sample.

- The matchup meta data is compiled in the file 'meta.csv' or 'meta.xls', which follow the format of:

idmmsilengthwidthpolarModecenterLookAngleheightspacewidthspacepath

Ship_C01S01N000147793930013826DH42.511.7021831.124222Cargo\AggregatesCarrier

Ship_C01S01N00023714690008712DH42.511.7015911.124222Cargo\AggregatesCarrier

Ship_C01S02N000135144500022932DH27.281.726151.124222Cargo\BulkCarrier

...

Definition of each field is explained as follows:

id - file name

mmsi - ship MMSI extracted from AIS

length, width - ship size extracted from AIS

polarMode - GF-3 polarization mode

centerLookAngle - GF-3 incident angle at the scene center

heightspace, widthspace - GF-3 SAR image pixel size

path - path to the file

3. Citation

For more details regarding the dataset, please refer to the paper:

Hou et al. FUSAR-Ship: building a High-resolution SAR-AIS Matchup Dataset of Gaofen-3 for Ship Detection and Recognition, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, April 2020

Please cite this paper if you use FUSAR-Ship in your research.

4. Download

from baidu cloud

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1JlaRUeFKq37flIjXZtQ0YQ

access code: c6ea

from google drive

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SOEMud9oUq69gxbfcBkOvtUkZ3LWEpZJ/view?usp=sharing