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license: other
license_name: cc-by-nc-4.0
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The included version here is the original Challenge dataset version found [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kullervo/BRIGHT) with the
only difference that the zip file also includes the .txt files that indicate the splits from [here](https://github.com/ChenHongruixuan/BRIGHT/tree/master/dfc25_benchmark/dataset/splitname).

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@article{chen2025bright,
      title={BRIGHT: A globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response}, 
      author={Hongruixuan Chen and Jian Song and Olivier Dietrich and Clifford Broni-Bediako and Weihao Xuan and Junjue Wang and Xinlei Shao and Yimin Wei and Junshi Xia and Cuiling Lan and Konrad Schindler and Naoto Yokoya},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06019},
      year={2025},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06019}, 
}

License statement from original repo:

- Label data of BRIGHT are provided under the same license as the optical images, which varies with different events.
- With the exception of two events, Hawaii-wildfire-2023 and La Palma-volcano eruption-2021, all optical images are from Maxar Open Data Program, following CC-BY-NC-4.0 license. The optical images related to Hawaii-wildifire-2023 are from High-Resolution Orthoimagery project of NOAA Office for Coastal Management. The optical images related to La Palma-volcano eruption-2021 are from IGN (Spain) following CC-BY 4.0 license. 
- The SAR images of BRIGHT is provided by Capella Open Data Gallery and Umbra Space Open Data Program, following CC-BY-4.0 license.