VME & CDSI

The Vehicles in the Middle East (VME) and Car Detection in Satellite Imagery (CDSI) datasets were developed to support robust and geographically diverse vehicle detection from high-resolution satellite imagery. VME focuses on the Middle East, covering 54 cities across 12 countries with more than 100,000 annotated vehicles, while CDSI consolidates VME with several existing public datasets to create a larger benchmark with nearly 900,000 car instances. Together, the datasets support the development and evaluation of more generalizable vehicle detection models for applications including humanitarian response, mobility analysis, and population displacement monitoring.