Overview
This data set contains 280,485 sequences of camera trap images from 637 locations in Washington, USA, totaling 1,205,453 images. Labels are provided for 26 categories. The most common categories are “empty” (215,659 sequences), “domestic cattle” (17,929 sequences) and “odocoileus hemionus” (mule deer) (10,756 sequences). Images of humans and vehicles have been removed.
Images were collected from camera traps placed on public lands in north-central and northeastern Washington in 2016-2017. Cameras were placed on roads and hiking trails, unbaited, at ~60 cm height. We restricted camera placement to elevations >1,000m when possible. We spaced cameras ≥1km apart within a given grid cell. We set cameras to record a burst of 4–5 images each time they were triggered, to provide multiple views of the focal species. Sampling period spanned snow-off months (June-Oct), in 2016-2017.
Citation, license, and contact information
For questions about this data set, contact Daniel Thornton at Washington State University.
This data set is released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant).
Data format
Annotations (including species tags and unique location identifiers) are provided in COCO Camera Traps format.
For information about mapping this dataset’s categories to a common taxonomy, see this page.
Downloading the data
Metadata is available here.
