Multi-topography dataset for wind turbine detection from remote sensing image

Owing to the global energy conservation and emission reduction, the wind power industry is developing rapidly in China because of abundant wind energy resources. Wind power has become the third largest power source and remain growing rapidly in China. Efficient and accurate measurement of the location of wind turbine is important for assessing local wind power development. Remote sensing and deep learning technologies offer technical possibilities for wind turbine identification. However, until now there is few publicly available land remote sensing wind power turbine object detection dataset. Aiming at this question, this paper designs a land remote sensing wind turbine dataset, which includes 4459 individual wind turbines in various environmental backgrounds, including sandy land, woodland, grassland, snowy land, and wasteland. In addition, the dataset is composed of YOLO and VOC markup formats to meet the experimental needs of researchers. This paper also evaluates the dataset under the various mainstream object detection frameworks and reach 92% in mAP. The dataset can be obtained from Zenodo website https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7808269.