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GET THE DATA, AND ENTER THE CONTEST
The SEN12MS training data set is available at https://mediatum
.ub.tum.de/1474000. The validation data set without any
corresponding high-resolution labels was posted to the IEEE
DataPort (https://ieee-dataport.org/competitions/2020
-ieee-grss-data-fusion-contest) on 13 December 2019.
The evaluation server with a public leaderboard opened on
13 January 2020, enabling -participants to submit their
validation-set prediction results to the CodaLab competition website (https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22289) for feedback about their approaches.
To enter the test phase, participants submitted a short
description of their approach to Track 1 by 28 February, received the test data set on 1 March, and had five days to
submit their land cover maps. On 6 March, the evaluation
server for Track 1 closed, high-resolution labels for the validation data set were released, and the evaluation server for
Track 2 opened. Participants have until 20 March to complete Track 2 and must submit a short description of their
approach to Track 2 by 25 March to be eligible to win. The
test phase is kept short to ensure an objective comparison
of the methods. After the submitted classification maps
are compared with the undisclosed ground truth for testing, the winners will be announced on 27 March, and the
evaluation server will reopen to support development in
the field.

More information regarding the data download and
evaluation-server registration can be found at the IADF TC
website (http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical
-committees/data-fusion/). Questions and comments
about the data and the contest can be submitted to the
LinkedIn group of the IADF TC (https://www.linkedin.com/
groups/3678437/).
AWARDEES, AWARDS, AND PRIZES
The following seven teams will be declared winners:
◗◗ the first-, second-, third-, and fourth-ranked teams in
Track 1
◗◗ the first-, second-, and third-ranked teams in Track 2.
The winning teams will be invited to submit papers to the
2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Symposium (IGARSS) in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Each manuscript must describe the method used to achieve the winning results. The teams will present their papers during an
oral invited session dedicated to the contest, and the papers
will be included in the IGARSS 2020 proceedings.
The seven winning teams will be awarded an IEEE certificate of recognition during a ceremony at the IGARSS 2020
awards banquet. The first-ranked team in both tracks will
be awarded a special prize and coauthor an article (with a
limit of three coauthors per team) summarizing the outcomes of the contest, which will be submitted to IEEE

FIGURE 1. The 2020 Data Fusion Contest banner.

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FIGURE 2. The SEN12MS training data, including the (a) Sentinel-1 image (single polarization), (b) Sentinel-2 image (red-green-blue), and

(c) MODIS low-resolution land cover map (simplified IGBP scheme). (d) The Data Fusion Contest high-resolution land cover map that will be
used for validation and testing.
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https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1474000 https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1474000 http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-fusion/ http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-fusion/ https://ieee-dataport.org/competitions/2020-ieee-grss-data-fusion-contest https://ieee-dataport.org/competitions/2020-ieee-grss-data-fusion-contest https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3678437/ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3678437/ https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22289 https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22289

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