Automatic Dataset Builder for Machine Learning Applications to Satellite Imagery

Nowadays the use of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms is spreading in the field of Remote Sensing, with applications ranging from detection and classification of land use and monitoring to the prediction of many natural or anthropic phenomena of interest. One main limit of their employment is related to the need for a huge amount of data for training the neural network, chosen for the specific application, and the resulting computational weight and time required to collect the necessary data. In this letter the architecture of an innovative tool, enabling researchers to create in an automatic way suitable datasets for AI (Artificial Intelligence) applications in the EO (Earth Observation) context, is presented. Two versions of the architecture have been implemented and made available on Git-Hub, with a specific Graphical User Interface (GUI) for non-expert users.