Dataset for Rocky Desertification Degree Extraction from Multi-source Gaofen Imagery in Puding County, Guizhou Province

It supports the reproduction and verification of Figures 1–10 and Tables 1–3 in the paper “Extracting Rocky Desertification Degree Using Gaofen Satellite Data” (Manuscript No. dlxb2024-0549). The dataset includes study area overview data, multi-source Gaofen satellite imagery and field samples, sample-plot land-cover classification data, field-measured endmember spectra, sample dataset construction data, bare rock fraction inversion and validation data, local comparison data of inversion results, local comparison data of classification results, FCN training performance data, model accuracy comparison data, and tabular data for GF imagery band parameters, rocky desertification classification criteria, and model accuracy assessment.The study area is mainly located in Puding County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, China.

The GF-2, GF-6, and GF-7 images were acquired on January 22, 2020, November 11, 2020, and April 3, 2022, respectively. The field photographs of the study area were taken on September 5, 2024, and the field validation samples were collected on February 28, 2022. The data types include GeoTIFF raster files, Shapefile vector data, Excel/CSV tables, PNG thumbnails, Word data documents, and ZIP archives.