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This data descriptor introduces a high-resolution remote sensing image dataset for semantic segmentation of levee-like features. The dataset covers 11 regions across Xinjiang and Gansu Province in northwestern China. It includes 459 single-phase base images with a spatial resolution of 0.50 m, as well as multi-temporal images of the same regions captured at different times. All annotations were manually drawn in polygon mode using the LabelMe tool and converted into YOLO format label files. The dataset adopts a strict strategy to prevent data leakage: first, training, validation and test sets are divided based on single-phase images, and then multi-temporal images are allocated to the corresponding data subsets according to their spatial locations. The dataset has been publicly released on the ScienceDB platform under the CC BY 4.0 license. 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