Saurabh Kaushik

Saurabh Kaushik

Postdoctoral Researcher, Geospatial Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Geo-foundational Models, Transfomers, Data Fusion

Glacial Lake-Bench

Status: Zenodo — Glacial Lake Bench

Glacial Lake-Bench overview
Visualization of 11 channels and corresponding label (lake boundary).
Glacial Lake-Bench overview
Multiple examples of image-lable pairs of Glacial-Lake-Bench Dataset collected globally.
Glacial Lake-Bench overview
Multiple examples of image-lable pairs of Glacial-Lake-Bench Dataset collected globally.
**Table 1. Summary of the compiled Glacial Lake-Bench dataset.**
| RGI Region | No. Images | Total Lake Area (km²) | Area Covered by Dataset (km²) | % Area Covered | |------------------------|-----------:|----------------------:|-------------------------------:|---------------:| | Alaska | 3,323 | 3,549.55 | 3,174.64 | 89.42% | | Iceland | 65 | 306.50 | 35.78 | 11.67% | | New-Zealand | 133 | 393.67 | 87.43 | 22.21% | | North Asia | 261 | 467.02 | 299.75 | 64.15% | | Scandinavia | 595 | 1,840.02 | 351.08 | 19.08% | | Svalbard | 487 | 278.30 | 219.05 | 78.71% | | Arctic Canada | 1,558 | 767.37 | 583.21 | 75.99% | | Arctic Canada South | 1,074 | 2,567.49 | 1,112.91 | 43.36% | | Central Asia | 1,982 | 921.79 | 600.95 | 65.20% | | Central Europe | 521 | 156.84 | 63.92 | 40.77% | | Greenland | 2,287 | 5,725.42 | 3,775.64 | 65.94% | | Low Latitude | 412 | 524.83 | 116.06 | 22.11% | | Middle East (Caucasus) | 97 | 6.31 | 3.81 | 60.37% | | Russian Arctic | 344 | 420.33 | 152.12 | 36.19% | | South Andes | 2,077 | 3,329.34 | 802.32 | 24.09% | | South Asia East | 638 | 649.21 | 59.80 | 9.21% | | South Asia West | 1,684 | 283.99 | 223.88 | 78.81% | | Western Canada | 1,612 | 2,107.74 | 296.66 | 14.07% |

Curated, multi-sensor dataset for glacial lake detection and segmentation. Includes Sentinel-1 (VV, VH), Sentinel-2 (Blue, Green, Red, NIR, SWIR-11, SWIR-12), NDWI, DEM, and slope. Designed for training and benchmarking geo-foundational and segmentation models.