SARLO-80: Worldwide Slant SAR Language Optic Dataset 80cm
Researchers released SARLO-80, a large-scale dataset combining very-high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, aligned optical images, and natural-language descriptions across 2,500 worldwide scenes. The dataset addresses a critical gap in multimodal AI training by preserving complex-valued SAR measurements and native acquisition geometry, enabling more physically grounded foundation models for Earth observation applications.