Ai2 releases PLANTEUR, a tropical crop-mapping benchmark extending PASTIS to six French overseas regions
Ai2 released PLANTEUR, a crop-mapping benchmark extending the PASTIS dataset to six French overseas territories: Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, Mayotte, and Saint-Martin. It contains 2,750 aligned Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, and Landsat-8 time series and 4,506 km² of parcel-derived labels across seven crop classes. Baselines were evaluated on standard, leave-one-island-out, few-shot, and PASTIS-included splits. The authors report that every evaluated method scores substantially lower on PLANTEUR than on PASTIS. The dataset is available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
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Ai2 released PLANTEUR, a crop-mapping benchmark extending the PASTIS dataset to six French overseas territories: Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, Mayotte, and Saint-Martin. It contains 2,750 aligned Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, and Landsat-8 time series and 4,506 km² of parcel-derived labels across seven crop classes. Baselines were evaluated on standard, leave-one-island-out, few-shot, and PASTIS-included splits. The authors report that every evaluated method scores substantially lower on PLANTEUR than on PASTIS. The dataset is available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
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- PLANTEUR spans six tropical French overseas regions with 2,750 aligned multi-sensor time series.
- It covers 4,506 km² of parcel-derived labels across seven crop classes, including sugarcane, banana, and pineapple.
- All evaluated methods score substantially lower on PLANTEUR than on PASTIS.
- Models lose roughly half their accuracy when tested on an island not seen during training.
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Ai2's PLANTEUR extends the PASTIS crop-type benchmark to Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, Mayotte and Saint-Martin: 2,750 aligned Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 and Landsat-8 time series and 4,506 km² of parcel labels in seven crop classes, with baselines for unseen-region and few-shot splits. Ai2 page dated October 22, 2026 (no time given).
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Crop-type mapping supports food security, water allocation, and farmland tracking, yet existing benchmarks cover mainly metropolitan France. PLANTEUR offers a way to test geospatial models in smallholder, tropical, and topographically complex agricultural systems.
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