The escalating frequency and severity of natural disasters pose significant threats to human health, infrastructure, and ecosystems. The timely and accurate provision of information has the potential to revolutionize disaster management, particularly in accessing visual data for rapid response and recovery. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with affordable sensors offer opportunities to collect extensive high-resolution data, especially from inaccessible areas. However, the challenge lies in effectively analyzing these large datasets.

The RescueNet initiative contributes high-resolution UAS imagery with detailed classification, semantic segmentation, and visual question-answering annotations. This challenge will have several tracks including semi-supervised semantic segmentation and VQA.