A Large-Scale Dataset for Active Fire Detection/Segmentation (Landsat-8)

This dataset was created from all Landsat-8 images from South America in the year 2018. More than 31 thousand images were processed (15 TB of data), and approximately on half of them active fire pixels were found. The Landsat-8 sensor has 30 meters of spatial resolution (1 panchromatic band of 15m), 16 bits of radiometric resolution and 16 days of temporal resolution (revisit). The images in our dataset are in TIFF (geotiff) format with 10 bands (excluding the 15m panchromatic band). We cropped the original Landsat-8 scenes into image patches with 128 x 128 pixels by using a stride overlap of 64 pixels (vertical and horizontal). The masks are in binary format where True (1) represents fire and False (0) represents background and they were generated from the conditions set by Schroeder et al. (2016).