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SYSU-HiRoads

A large-scale remote-sensing road dataset, released openly.

Role
Co-lead & co-author
Period
2025 – 2026
Geographic coverage of the SYSU-HiRoads dataset over satellite imagery
Geographic coverage of the dataset over high-resolution satellite imagery.

SYSU-HiRoads packages thousands of square kilometres of high-resolution satellite imagery with fine-grained road-hierarchy labels, alongside a vision-language-geometry (VLG) algorithm that classifies roads at scale. It is built for open research on transport mapping, urban planning, and disaster response.

I co-led the public release, with documentation aimed at external researchers, and authored the dissemination article that made the dataset and method accessible to the remote-sensing community. The dataset is archived on Zenodo with a citable DOI.