MethaneSET-S2 Finetune: Verified Methane Plume Events from Sentinel-2 for Supervised Learning
methaneset-s2-finetune is the verified plume subset of MethaneSET-S2, designed for supervised fine-tuning of methane detection and segmentation models. This subset contains Sentinel-2 imagery with manually verified methane plumes, binary segmentation masks, and methane enhancement maps (ΔXCH₄ in ppb). Unlike MARS-S2L which provides only six common bands, MethaneSET retrieves all 13 Sentinel-2 L1C bands at 10m GSD (200x200 pixel chips), enabling research with coastal aerosol, water vapour, cirrus, and red edge channels. Each sample includes target and reference image pairs, plume segmentation masks, CH4 enhancement images, Cloud Score+ masks, wind vectors (ERA5-Land onshore, GEOS-FP offshore), solar/viewing geometry, emission rates with uncertainties, elevation (Copernicus DEM GLO-30), and 64-dim AlphaEarth Foundation embeddings.
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