# The BioMassters **URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/c/biomass-estimation/89.md [Latest](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.drivendata.org/categories.md) --- ## [About the The BioMassters category](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-the-biomassters-category/8094)
**Author:** [@ishashah](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ishashah)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is for posts about the BioMassters competition. Please keep all posts here specific to the competition. To start a new thread, click the \[+ New Topic\] button and make sure that The BioMassters category is … --- ## [Where can I find test\_agbm?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-can-i-find-test-agbm/9158)
**Author:** [@lukeb](https://community.drivendata.org/u/lukeb)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-can-i-find-test-agbm/9158 "2023-11-04T19:57:48Z")
Good evening, I’m not able to evaluate a model I trained on the Biomassters dataset because test\_abmg is missing on huggingface. Is there a link from which I can download it? Alternatively, is there still a submission p… --- ## [Using the dataset outside this contest](https://community.drivendata.org/t/using-the-dataset-outside-this-contest/8238)
**Author:** [@lewfish](https://community.drivendata.org/u/lewfish)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/using-the-dataset-outside-this-contest/8238 "2023-08-21T14:36:43Z")
Hello, I would like some more clarity on how the data in this contest can be used. I am thinking about making a public notebook showing how to use this data, and would like other people to be able to run it after the con… --- ## [Is it possible to provide geolocation data for each geotiff](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-geolocation-data-for-each-geotiff/8205)
**Author:** [@zhaoyutim](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zhaoyutim)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-it-possible-to-provide-geolocation-data-for-each-geotiff/8205 "2023-08-21T14:36:05Z")
Hi Team, I downloaded the S1/S2/AGBD data from your S3 bucket, however, I found the images are not geocoded. Could you please provide geocoded images during or after this competition? It would also help the participant … --- ## [Georeferenced data availability](https://community.drivendata.org/t/georeferenced-data-availability/8589)
**Author:** [@Geethen](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Geethen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/georeferenced-data-availability/8589 "2023-08-21T14:34:12Z")
When will the georeferenced version of the data be made available? --- ## [Will the best model be released?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/will-the-best-model-be-released/8547)
**Author:** [@gberton](https://community.drivendata.org/u/gberton)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/will-the-best-model-be-released/8547 "2023-03-20T21:27:31Z")
I’m curious if the best models will be released, or even if the best methods will have to present a paper with their method. Also, if anyone reading this would release an open source implementation of their method (even… --- ## [Ground truth data question](https://community.drivendata.org/t/ground-truth-data-question/8577)
**Author:** [@zhou.m](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zhou.m)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/ground-truth-data-question/8577 "2023-02-02T20:16:00Z")
Hi Just wondering if anyone has compared the ground truth data to any biomass estimation literature. I understand the ecological differences between forests exist but the ground truth for this competition seems to be in… --- ## [How to have access to the data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-have-access-to-the-data/8186)
**Author:** [@hazhir\_bahrami](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hazhir_bahrami)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-have-access-to-the-data/8186 "2022-11-17T07:08:26Z")
Hi, I hope everything is going well with you. When I want to download data by command line, downloading data is interrupted. When I want to download data by passing the following link: s3://drivendata-competition-bioma… --- ## [How to download data in China](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-download-data-in-china/8417)
**Author:** [@huojinshensss](https://community.drivendata.org/u/huojinshensss)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-download-data-in-china/8417 "2023-01-17T16:27:54Z")
Hi, I hope everything is going well with you.We had some trouble downloading data.Data transmission was interrupted during download.And since the restriction of Internet law and the absence of visa card,it is a bit diff… --- ## [Tif image corrupted](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-image-corrupted/8401)
**Author:** [@VivekPillai75](https://community.drivendata.org/u/VivekPillai75)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-image-corrupted/8401 "2023-01-12T20:42:15Z")
We are relatively new to ai/ml. We were trying to download the images from awscli, but on inspecting the images, they seem to be corrupted. Due to this we are unable to import images into jupyter. We are unable to work f… --- ## [Reading data into Matlab](https://community.drivendata.org/t/reading-data-into-matlab/8290)
**Author:** [@silver\_arbalest](https://community.drivendata.org/u/silver_arbalest)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/reading-data-into-matlab/8290 "2022-12-15T17:12:33Z")
Hello, I’m trying to read the data in order while following the blogspost: The BioMassters Challenge - Benchmark - DrivenData Labs s3Path = 's3://drivendata-competition-biomassters-public-eu/train\_features/'; exampleS1… --- ## [Training the model](https://community.drivendata.org/t/training-the-model/8285)
**Author:** [@mihirr](https://community.drivendata.org/u/mihirr)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/training-the-model/8285 "2022-12-13T06:28:56Z")
Anyone here who used the Matlab online can tell me how much time it took for the Deep Learning Model to Train? I am running it since few hours now, but see no progress. Any suggestion on how to deal with this issue woul… --- ## [How to work with huge datasets like this one?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-work-with-huge-datasets-like-this-one/8271)
**Author:** [@Loki\_K](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Loki_K)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-work-with-huge-datasets-like-this-one/8271 "2022-12-12T05:30:20Z")
Hii, I am relatively new to competitions with huge data like this. Can I know how you people are working or what is the general etiquette to deal with huge datasets like this? Do you rent cloud or have own local “Deep… --- ## [I have not enough space for data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/i-have-not-enough-space-for-data/8252)
**Author:** [@roberto.holgado](https://community.drivendata.org/u/roberto.holgado)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/i-have-not-enough-space-for-data/8252 "2022-12-07T20:03:27Z")
Hello, I am new to this community and I would like to start participating in competitions of this style. My problem is that most of the competitions require a lot of space to store the data, how do you do it? In this com… --- ## [Blocky corrupted image pattern for Sentinel 2?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/blocky-corrupted-image-pattern-for-sentinel-2/8263)
**Author:** [@lewfish](https://community.drivendata.org/u/lewfish)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/blocky-corrupted-image-pattern-for-sentinel-2/8263 "2022-12-06T18:49:06Z")
When plotting the data, I noticed that some of the S2 images have a strange blocky pattern. I have checked that I am downloading the data correctly using the checksum, double checked the image in QGIS, and checked that t… --- ## [MathWorks License](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mathworks-license/8190)
**Author:** [@jsblandon](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jsblandon)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mathworks-license/8190 "2022-12-01T22:53:24Z")
Hi! Our team have tried unsuccesfully to get the license. We tried to follow the steps but in all scenarios we get the message: We have detected suspicious behavior If you are unable to correct this issue on your own, c… --- ## [Another PyTorch Workflow Example (RMSE=37)](https://community.drivendata.org/t/another-pytorch-workflow-example-rmse-37/8249)
**Author:** [@tcmoran](https://community.drivendata.org/u/tcmoran)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/another-pytorch-workflow-example-rmse-37/8249 "2022-12-01T19:12:16Z")
Here’s another example of a basic PyTorch workflow that goes a bit further than the useful baseline example provided by @fnands It includes data exploration, feature selection (i.e., choosing which months of data to use… --- ## [A quick and dirty pytorch baseline](https://community.drivendata.org/t/a-quick-and-dirty-pytorch-baseline/8172)
**Author:** [@fnands](https://community.drivendata.org/u/fnands)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 7:54am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/a-quick-and-dirty-pytorch-baseline/8172 "2022-12-01T07:54:21Z")
Seeing as no Python baseline was provided, I put together quick notebook using pytorch to get started. You can find the notebook here. It’s just a simple UNet that takes a single Sentinel-2 image as input. I tried usi… --- ## [Clouds in dataset](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clouds-in-dataset/8234)
**Author:** [@sammyl\_9](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sammyl_9)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/clouds-in-dataset/8234 "2022-11-29T13:15:32Z")
Hi everyone! I am relatively new to ml/ai tasks and I’m using this as abit of a training exercise. I’m wondering how you would go about tackling cloudy images/ snowy images creating noise in the segmentation training. I… --- ## [How to download the data from a direct link](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-download-the-data-from-a-direct-link/8222)
**Author:** [@ISYAE](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ISYAE)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-to-download-the-data-from-a-direct-link/8222 "2022-11-24T14:58:03Z")
Hello, I am trying to download the data from a direct link rather than the way described on this page which is hard for me to follow and access the data. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks --- ## [Projection issues](https://community.drivendata.org/t/projection-issues/8194)
**Author:** [@Geethen](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Geethen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/projection-issues/8194 "2022-11-18T23:07:42Z")
I have downloaded the comp data and I am currently trying to load the image patches into QGIS, however, the image data does not seem to have any projection information. It will be useful to have the projection informatio… --- ## [What does best image for the S2 data mean?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-best-image-for-the-s2-data-mean/8183)
**Author:** [@zhou.m](https://community.drivendata.org/u/zhou.m)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-best-image-for-the-s2-data-mean/8183 "2022-11-15T16:39:41Z")
Found in the Problem Description section: We have selected the best image for each month from the S2 data, as opposed to taking the mean of all images collected over the month, as is done with S1. What is the criteria f… --- ## [\[algorithm discussion\] beware! it is a temporal-spatial input problem](https://community.drivendata.org/t/algorithm-discussion-beware-it-is-a-temporal-spatial-input-problem/8150)
**Author:** [@hengcherkeng](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hengcherkeng)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/algorithm-discussion-beware-it-is-a-temporal-spatial-input-problem/8150 "2022-11-15T13:24:37Z")
At first, I thought this is a simple, image segmentation problem. But on a closer look, not all satellite images contain useful information. Hence you need to consider temporal-spatial input. My model is feature extract… --- ## [Is unsupervised/self-supervised learning of test images allowed?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-unsupervised-self-supervised-learning-of-test-images-allowed/8146)
**Author:** [@hengcherkeng](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hengcherkeng)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-unsupervised-self-supervised-learning-of-test-images-allowed/8146 "2022-11-14T14:27:23Z")
i am thinking of using transformer-based masked image modeling, aka masked image token, for self-supervised learning SSL using both train and test images. (e.g. MAE pre-training in ViT). Is it allowed in this competitio… --- ## [How the evaluation metrics handles outlier noises in lidar ground truth?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-the-evaluation-metrics-handles-outlier-noises-in-lidar-ground-truth/8148)
**Author:** [@hengcherkeng](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hengcherkeng)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-the-evaluation-metrics-handles-outlier-noises-in-lidar-ground-truth/8148 "2022-11-09T03:26:27Z")
I wonder how the evaluation metric code at the test server handles outlier noises in lidar ground truth? The least-square loss is sensitive to outliers. I think spike noise (very high values \> 400) is common in lidar im… --- ## [Should I use only matlab](https://community.drivendata.org/t/should-i-use-only-matlab/8152)
**Author:** [@djilanimed](https://community.drivendata.org/u/djilanimed)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/should-i-use-only-matlab/8152 "2022-11-08T15:26:35Z")
Hello everybody Can I submit result with python or I should use matlab thank you ! --- ## [MathWorks Resources for The Biomassters](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mathworks-resources-for-the-biomassters/8133)
**Author:** [@GraceWoolson](https://community.drivendata.org/u/GraceWoolson)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mathworks-resources-for-the-biomassters/8133 "2022-11-04T20:51:08Z")
Hello Everybody! We at MathWorks are excited to support participants of The Biomassters challenge by providing complimentary MATLAB Licenses, tutorials, and additional getting started resources. MATLAB can be a powerful…