A multi-site, multi-year labeled polygon dataset for agricultural land use and land cover mapping in central and northern Benin
Sabi Bruno Bio Nikki Sarè, Raffaele Gaetano, Yvon-Carmen Hountondji, Comlan Hervé Sossou, Laurent Gazull, Gérard Nounagnon Gouwakinnou, Nestor René Ahoyo Adjovi, Simon Madec, Agnès Bégué, Naboua Abdelkader Kouhoundji, Omoto Aurelle Christelle Sedegnan, Mikhaïl Jean De Dieu Dotou Padonou, Coômlan Charles Hounton, Séverin Biaou, Jaurès Kakpo, Samirath Chabi Yoruba, Nicanor Kouton, Bénoît Adinafo Clément Bessan, Biaou Denis Olou, Jean Yarou Koto, Amah Akodewou, Benoit Mertens, Antoine Denis, Bernard Tychon, Jonathan Peereman, Valentine Lebourgeois, Roberto Interdonato, Jean Huchon · 2026
Read A multi-site, multi-year labeled polygon dataset for agricultural land use and land cover mapping in central and northern Benin by Sabi Bruno Bio Nikki Sarè, Raffaele Gaetano, Yvon-Carmen Hountondji, Comlan Hervé Sossou, Laurent Gazull, Gérard Nounagnon Gouwakinnou, Nestor René Ahoyo Adjovi, Simon Madec, Agnès Bégué, Naboua Abdelkader Kouhoundji, Omoto Aurelle Christelle Sedegnan, Mikhaïl Jean De Dieu Dotou Padonou, Coômlan Charles Hounton, Séverin Biaou, Jaurès Kakpo, Samirath Chabi Yoruba, Nicanor Kouton, Bénoît Adinafo Clément Bessan, Biaou Denis Olou, Jean Yarou Koto, Amah Akodewou, Benoit Mertens, Antoine Denis, Bernard Tychon, Jonathan Peereman, Valentine Lebourgeois, Roberto Interdonato, Jean Huchon (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13635007.txt.
Description
Sarè and a large international team publish in 2026 a reference dataset for mapping farmland in central and northern Benin. There, small, varied plots and scarce ground data make satellite land cover maps unreliable. The data article describes how the reference set was built.
The dataset holds 33,065 hand-labeled polygons covering more than eighteen thousand hectares across six pilot sites, each a fifty-by-fifty kilometer window. Annual field campaigns from 2022 to 2024 documented crops on the ground, while other polygons were drawn from high-resolution satellite images and open map data, then checked by experts. Thirteen classes cover the local farming reality, from cereals, cotton, and roots to orchards, forests, savanna, and built-up land. The authors offer the set for training deep learning models and for producing yearly agricultural maps.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sabi Bruno Bio Nikki Sarè, Raffaele Gaetano, Yvon-Carmen Hountondji, Comlan Hervé Sossou, Laurent Gazull, Gérard Nounagnon Gouwakinnou, Nestor René Ahoyo Adjovi, Simon Madec, Agnès Bégué, Naboua Abdelkader Kouhoundji, Omoto Aurelle Christelle Sedegnan, Mikhaïl Jean De Dieu Dotou Padonou, Coômlan Charles Hounton, Séverin Biaou, Jaurès Kakpo, Samirath Chabi Yoruba, Nicanor Kouton, Bénoît Adinafo Clément Bessan, Biaou Denis Olou, Jean Yarou Koto, Amah Akodewou, Benoit Mertens, Antoine Denis, Bernard Tychon, Jonathan Peereman, Valentine Lebourgeois, Roberto Interdonato, Jean Huchon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |