A dataset of industrial heat sources in operation in India from 2012 to 2021

<p indent="0mm">In the past decade, India’s industrialization process has advanced rapidly and has fully entered the stage of industrialization construction. Therefore, timely understanding of the industrialization development process in the Indian is of great significance for the country’s continued industrial growth. Based on the 375-meter high spatiotemporal resolution NPP-VIIRS active fire/hotspot data, this study applies an improved K-means spatio-temporal density segmentation algorithm, combined with night-time light filtering, and overlays Google Earth high-resolution image data, resulting in a dataset of industrial heat sources in operation in India from 2012 to 202. After manual verification and analysis, the recognition accuracy of the dataset in the study is 93.32%, showing significant improvements in recognition accuracy, count, granularity, and spatial overlap, compared to the same period of data. The dataset provides key information, such as the four-corner latitude and longitude coordinates of industrial heat sources, fire point counts within the region, the administrative areas they belong to, and their operational start and end years. It can offer scientific and reliable data support for analyzing the industrialization process in Indian, and also provides certain decision-making support for the country’s future development and for promoting Sino-Indian cooperation.