Automated Population of Geospatial Databases (APGD)
HYDICE Test Dataset I

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The Carnegie Mellon University Digital Mapping Laboratory (MAPSLab) is making available to DARPA/IU APGD contractors an extensive test dataset collected using the HYDICE hyperspectral sensor and processed by the MAPSLab. This dataset was collected over Fort Hood, Texas, in October, 1995, and covers an area of approximately 2600 meters by 800 meters. The scene contains a variety of surface material types, including buildings with sheet metal and asphalt roofs, concrete and asphalt parking areas and roads, and vegetated and bare earth areas.

The distribution tape contains:

Information regarding this dataset is available for review in the following distribution document: Automated Population of Geospatial Databases (APGD) HYDICE Test Dataset I. This document contains information regarding the HYDICE sensor, geometric processing, radiometric processing, and provides a complete description for researchers wishing to evaluate hyperspectral data for cartographic feature extraction and surface material classification.

The following figures show a small portion of the test dataset showing the raw, uncorrected, HYDICE imagery and an associated manually derived surface material map.

HYDICE radiance image (Bands 166, 64, 51) Colorized radiance image surface material
ground truth

Procedures for Obtaining the HYDICE Test Dataset I

  1. Download and print the HYDICE Test Dataset I request form.

  2. Return the completed and signed form to the:
    Digital Mapping Laboratory
    School of Computer Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5000 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

  3. The distribution will be sent out on an 8mm data cartridge (tape) in TAR format. The approximate size of the distribution is 424 Mbytes.

Carnegie Mellon University
Digital Mapping Laboratory		 04 November 1997
(last updated 07 November 1997)