--- title: "Drone Detection Datasets: Counter-UAS and Aerial" description: "Synthetic drone detection datasets: drones over airports, small-drone swarms in clutter, civilian vs armed UAVs, armour from the air. YOLO labels, free samples." canonical: https://simuletic.com/datasets/drone html: https://simuletic.com/datasets/drone site: Simuletic, https://simuletic.com/llms.txt --- Drone and counter-UAS datasets # Drone detection datasets 4 datasets ### [UAV & Aerial View: Battle Tank Detection](https://simuletic.com/datasets/uav-aerial-battle-tank-detection-dataset) Synthetic aerial dataset for battle tank detection from UAV and drone perspectives. 3,000 YOLO-annotated images with 164 open-source samples on Kaggle. **Size** 3,000 images **Format** YOLO ### [Airport Drone Threat & Safety](https://simuletic.com/datasets/airport-drone-threat-safety-dataset) Synthetic airport drone detection dataset: 1,200 YOLO images, small-object focus, adverse weather, bird-vs-drone labels. GDPR compliant. **Size** 1,200 images **Format** YOLO ### [Military Drone Swarm & Saturation Attack](https://simuletic.com/datasets/military-drone-swarm-saturation-attack-dataset) Synthetic drone swarm dataset for Counter-UAS training. 5-15 drones per frame, 10-50 pixel objects, adverse weather. 1,000+ YOLO-annotated images. **Size** 1,000+ images **Format** YOLO ### [Drone Civilian / Armed Military Detection](https://simuletic.com/datasets/drone-civilian-armed-military-detection-dataset) Synthetic drone-perspective dataset distinguishing civilians from armed personnel. 800 YOLO images for aerial surveillance AI training. **Size** 800 images **Format** YOLO Public drone datasets (Anti-UAV, DUT Anti-UAV, Drone-vs-Bird) are small, filmed at one or two sites, and licensed for research. The sets below are synthetic, so they cover the scenes a counter-UAS system actually watches: runway approaches, perimeter fences, skies with birds and aircraft as hard negatives, and swarms of small targets a few pixels wide. Labels are YOLO boxes; the airport set includes evaluation clips. Licences are one-time, research or commercial, with larger packs for teams training on many scenes. Prices ## One-time licences, per dataset. | Images | Research | Commercial | Order | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1,000 | $149 | $590 | On the dataset page | | 5,000 | Not offered | $2,400 | [Order 5,000](https://simuletic.com/contact?topic=Dataset%20licence&size=5000) | | 10,000 | Not offered | $4,500 | [Order 10,000](https://simuletic.com/contact?topic=Dataset%20licence&size=10000) | | 20,000 | Not offered | $8,500 | [Order 20,000](https://simuletic.com/contact?topic=Dataset%20licence&size=20000) | - Commercial licence only: the research licence covers 1,000 images - YOLO + COCO labels, fixed train / val split, dataset card - Hard negatives in the same share as the 1,000-image set - Masks, pose keypoints or VLM captions where the dataset has them - Card or invoice; delivered as a download link within five working days Larger packs are assembled for your order and delivered as a download link within five working days. Prices in USD, excl. VAT, one-time, per dataset. Read next ## Guides for this kind of data. Guide Synthetic Data for YOLO Training: A Step-by-Step Guide Train YOLOv8 or YOLOv11 on synthetic data — dataset layout, data.yaml, training commands, domain-gap fixes, and synthetic vs manual labeling results. Guide Synthetic Data vs Real Data for Computer Vision: A Practical Comparison Head-to-head comparison of synthetic and real data for CV — cost, privacy, edge cases, annotation quality, and how to close the domain gap. Questions ## Drone and counter-UAS datasets: common questions **What is a drone detection dataset?** Labelled images or clips of unmanned aircraft seen from ground cameras, other aircraft or radar-cued EO sensors, used to train detectors that separate drones from birds, aircraft and clutter. **Do the datasets include birds and aircraft as hard negatives?** Yes. The airport drone set labels birds and aircraft so a detector learns not to alarm on them; the swarm set adds clutter, haze and distance. **Can defence companies license the data?** Yes. The commercial licence ($590 per 1,000 images, one-time) covers one organisation; larger packs and custom scenes are available. The data is synthetic and carries no sensor signatures or geolocation. More collections ## Other ways into the catalogue. - [CCTV datasets for computer vision9 datasets](https://simuletic.com/datasets/cctv) - [Video datasets for computer vision8 datasets](https://simuletic.com/datasets/video) - [YOLO datasets: ready-to-train detection data15 datasets](https://simuletic.com/datasets/yolo) ## Show us the alarm your model keeps getting wrong. Send five frames from your cameras. We reply within one working day with the fastest way to fix it — a catalogue dataset, a stress test or a custom pack. --- Markdown version of https://simuletic.com/datasets/drone. Prices in USD, excl. 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