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ICCV 2021 Workshop on LUAI · 2021

A Framework for Semi-automatic Collection of Temporal Satellite Imagery for Analysis of Dynamic Regions

N. Kashani Motlagh, A. Radhakrishnan, J. Davis, R. Ilin

We detail a semi-automatic pipeline for collecting and labeling temporal satellite imagery using OpenStreetMap metadata, reducing manual annotation while surfacing dynamic regions of interest. The workflow feeds downstream change-detection and classification systems, accelerating monitoring initiatives such as construction tracking.

Highlights

  • Combined imagery scraping, polygon filtering, and labeling UI into a single reproducible Python pipeline.
  • Enabled rapid refresh of construction monitoring datasets without hand-tracing every frame.

Artifacts & reproduction

Semi-automatic satellite data ingestion plus labeling UI for monitoring changing regions.

  • Generate OpenStreetMap-guided scrape manifests for temporal imagery.
  • Label construction phases with the included lightweight annotation app.
  • Export train/val/test splits for change-detection baselines.
  • Demonstrates end-to-end dataset design, labeling tooling, and export pipelines for remote sensing change detection.