The SEN12 Global Urban Mapping (SEN12_GUM) dataset consists of Sentinel-1 SAR (VV + VH band) and Sentinel-2 MSI (10 spectral bands) satellite images acquired over the same area for 96 training and validation sites and an additional 60 test sites covering unique geographies across the globe. The satellite imagery was acquired as part of the European Space Agency's Earth observation program Copernicus and was preprocessed in Google Earth Engine. Built-up area labels for the 30 training and validation sites located in the United States, Canada, and Australia were obtained from Microsoft's open-access building footprints. The other 66 training sites located outside of the United States, Canada, and Australia are unlabeled but can be used for semi-supervised learning. Labels obtained from the SpaceNet7 dataset are provided for all 60 test sites.

This work was supported in part by the Swedish National Space Agency under Grant dnr 155/15, the Digital Futures under the grant for the EO-AI4GlobalChange project, and in part by ESA-China Dragon 5 Program under the EO-AI4Urban Project.