CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery
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| author | Hoque, Oishee Bintey Mandal, Nibir Chandra Wilson, Mandy L Swarup, Samarth Marathe, Madhav Adiga, Abhijin |
| author_facet | Hoque, Oishee Bintey Mandal, Nibir Chandra Wilson, Mandy L Swarup, Samarth Marathe, Madhav Adiga, Abhijin |
| contents | Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) play an important role in agricultural production but are also associated with environmental, public health, and disease surveillance concerns. Large-scale mapping of CAFOs from remote sensing imagery remains challenging due to heterogeneous infrastructure layouts, noisy location records, inconsistent annotations, and incomplete inventories. We introduce CAFOSat, a strongly annotated, infrastructure-aware dataset for CAFO mapping across the United States. CAFOSat integrates high-resolution National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery with multi-source CAFO inventories collected across multiple states and transforms weak geolocation records into refined annotations through a human-in-the-loop pipeline combining AI-assisted annotation, GradCAM-based localization, and geometric clustering. To improve dataset quality, we curate challenging negative samples using land-cover-guided sampling with spatial exclusion constraints and provide infrastructure-level annotations, including barns, manure ponds, and grazing-related features, through manual verification. The resulting dataset contains more than 45,000 image patches spanning 20 states and four major CAFO categories. We benchmark a diverse set of convolutional, transformer-based, and vision-language models, demonstrating the value of refined annotations and curated negative samples for CAFO classification and generalization. In addition, we introduce a synthetic augmentation pipeline that generates infrastructure-aware variations to increase training diversity and improve robustness under distribution shifts. CAFOSat provides a large-scale benchmark for advancing infrastructure-aware agricultural monitoring and CAFO mapping from high-resolution remote sensing imagery. |
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| spellingShingle | CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery Hoque, Oishee Bintey Mandal, Nibir Chandra Wilson, Mandy L Swarup, Samarth Marathe, Madhav Adiga, Abhijin Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) play an important role in agricultural production but are also associated with environmental, public health, and disease surveillance concerns. Large-scale mapping of CAFOs from remote sensing imagery remains challenging due to heterogeneous infrastructure layouts, noisy location records, inconsistent annotations, and incomplete inventories. We introduce CAFOSat, a strongly annotated, infrastructure-aware dataset for CAFO mapping across the United States. CAFOSat integrates high-resolution National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery with multi-source CAFO inventories collected across multiple states and transforms weak geolocation records into refined annotations through a human-in-the-loop pipeline combining AI-assisted annotation, GradCAM-based localization, and geometric clustering. To improve dataset quality, we curate challenging negative samples using land-cover-guided sampling with spatial exclusion constraints and provide infrastructure-level annotations, including barns, manure ponds, and grazing-related features, through manual verification. The resulting dataset contains more than 45,000 image patches spanning 20 states and four major CAFO categories. We benchmark a diverse set of convolutional, transformer-based, and vision-language models, demonstrating the value of refined annotations and curated negative samples for CAFO classification and generalization. In addition, we introduce a synthetic augmentation pipeline that generates infrastructure-aware variations to increase training diversity and improve robustness under distribution shifts. CAFOSat provides a large-scale benchmark for advancing infrastructure-aware agricultural monitoring and CAFO mapping from high-resolution remote sensing imagery. |
| title | CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00548 |