Landing Approach Runway Detection (LARD) is a dataset of aerial front view images of runways designed for aircraft landing phase. It contains over 17K synthetic images of various runways, enriched with more than 1800 annotated pictures from real landing footages for comparison.

We also provide a synthetic image generator based on Google Earth Studio if you want to enrich your dataset, or fatten your LARD. Starting from a database of runway positions, our generator produces high quality synthetic pictures of airport runways with their metadata. Through geometric transformations, these pictures can then be automatically annotated with the position of the runway or any targeted element in the aerial picture.