Data Sets - LILA BC

UNSW Predators

Posted on March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 131,802 images from 82 camera locations in New South Wales, Australia. Labels are provided for five categories: dingo (24,540 images), fox (4,421 images), goanna (84,361 images), possum (2,074 images), and quoll (16,406 images). No blank images…

Snapshot Safari 2024 Expansion

Posted on November 24, 2024December 14, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 4,029,374 images from 15 camera trapping projects in the the Snapshot Safari program. Short descriptions of individual projects are provided below, in the project descriptions section. Labels are provided for 151 categories. The most common labels…

Seattle(ish) Camera Traps

Posted on November 1, 2024December 30, 2024 by lilawp

Overview I’m breaking the fourth wall right from the start here: this dataset comes from my house, and is intended to fill some specific gaps in public camera trap data that are difficult to fill from “real” camera trap data.…

Ohio Small Animals

Posted on October 4, 2024October 6, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 118,554 images from AHDriFT camera traps in Ohio. The AHDriFT system uses a fence to guide small animals into an enclosure containing a downward-facing camera. Labels are provided for 45 species. The most common labels are…

Desert Lion Conservation Camera Traps

Posted on July 16, 2024December 30, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 65,959 images and 199 videos from the Desert Lion Conservation Project in Northern Namibia. Desert Lion Conservation is a small non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of desert-adapted lions. Their main focus is to collect important…

UAS Imagery of Migratory Waterfowl at New Mexico Wildlife Refuges

Posted on February 17, 2024April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview These data were collected as part of Drones for Ducks, a co-operative agreement between the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for the Advancement of Spatial Informatics Research and Education (ASPIRE) at the University of New…

Trail Camera Images of New Zealand Animals

Posted on January 7, 2024February 26, 2025 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains approximately 2.5 million camera trap images from various projects across New Zealand. These projects were run by various organizations and took place in a diverse range of habitats using a variety of trail camera brands/models.…

Sea Star Re-ID 2023

Posted on December 13, 2023April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 1,204 images of 39 individual Asterias rubens sea stars (ASRU) and 983 images of 56 individual Anthenea australiae (ANAU) sea stars. For the ASRU data set, images were taken on five distinct days. For the…

Izembek Lagoon Waterfowl

Posted on September 15, 2023August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 9,267 high-resolution (8688×5792) aerial images from Izembek Lagoon in Alaska, collected to survey waterfowl. The dataset includes 521,270 bounding boxes on waterfowl, with each box identified as one of: Brant (424,790 boxes) Canada goose (47,561 boxes)…

New Zealand Wildlife Thermal Imaging

Posted on July 29, 2023April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains 121,190 thermal videos, from The Cacophony Project. The Cacophony Project focuses on monitoring native wildlife of New Zealand, with a particular emphasis on detecting and understanding the behaviour of invasive predators such as possums, rodents,…

iWildCam 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022October 19, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains approximately 260,000 camera trap images with species-level annotations derived from the WCS Camera Traps dataset, with additional metadata and supplementary training data not included in the original WCS Camera Traps dataset. This dataset was used for…

Lindenthal Camera Traps

Posted on December 7, 2022April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 775 video sequences, captured in the wildlife park Lindenthal (Cologne, Germany) as part of the AMMOD project, using an Intel RealSense D435 stereo camera. In addition to color and infrared images, the D435 is…

NOAA Puget Sound Nearshore Fish 2017-2018

Posted on July 31, 2022August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 77,739 images sampled from video collected on and around shellfish aquaculture farms in an estuary in the Northeast Pacific, in which 67,990 objects (fish and crustaceans) have been annotated on 30,384 images (the remainder have…

Leopard ID 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains images of African leopards (Panthera pardus) with bounding boxes and individual animal identifications. This dataset represents a collaborative effort based on the data collection and population modeling efforts conducted by Botswana Predator Conservation Trust and…

Hyena ID 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains images of spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) with bounding boxes and individual animal identifications. This dataset represents a collaborative effort based on the data collection and population modeling efforts conducted by the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust.…

Beluga ID 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) with pre-cropped images and individual animal identifications. This dataset represents a collaborative effort based on the data collection and population modeling efforts conducted in the Cook Inlet off the cost of…

Orinoquía Camera Traps

Posted on January 9, 2022August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 104,782 images collected from a 50-camera-trap array deployed from January to July 2020 within the private natural reserves El Rey Zamuro (31 km2) and Las Unamas (40 km2), located in the Meta department in the…

SWG Camera Traps 2018-2020

Posted on December 26, 2021August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 436,617 sequences of camera trap images from 982 locations in Vietnam and Lao, totaling 2,039,657 images. Labels are provided for 120 categories, primarily at the species level (for example, the most common labels are “Eurasian…

Idaho Camera Traps

Posted on July 29, 2021August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains approximately 1.5 million camera trap images from Idaho. Labels are provided for 62 categories, most of which are animal classes (“deer”, “elk”, and “cattle” are the most common animal classes), but labels also include some…

NOAA Arctic Seals 2019

Posted on April 7, 2021April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset consists of around 80,000 color and IR (thermal) images, associated with flights conducted in Alaska by the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center in 2019. Images have been annotated with around 28,000 bounding boxes (14,000 on color images,…

Boxes on Bees and Pollen

Posted on March 29, 2021April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview The goal of the BeeLivingSensor project is to non-invasively track honey bees at hive entrances, and to track the type and volume of pollen they bring into the hive. By analyzing the color of the pollen and aggregating it…

Forest Damages – Larch Casebearer

Posted on March 21, 2021April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview The larch casebearer, Coleophora laricella, is a moth that mainly attacks larch trees and has caused significant damage in larch stands in Västergötland, Sweden. The Swedish Forest Agency, supported by Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, started a project that…

WNI Giraffes

Posted on January 20, 2021April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview Masai giraffes are endangered from illegal killing and habitat loss. As part of the world’s largest giraffe conservation science project, the Wild Nature Institute has identified thousands of individual Masai giraffes in Tanzania by their unique and unchanging coat…

GeoLifeCLEF 2020

Posted on January 8, 2021April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview Understanding the geographic distribution of species is a key concern in conservation. By pairing species occurrences with environmental features, researchers can model the relationship between an environment and the species which may be found there. To facilitate research in…

Channel Islands Camera Traps

Posted on December 30, 2020August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 246,529 camera trap images from 73 camera locations in the Channel Islands, California. All animals are annotated with bounding boxes. Data were provided by The Nature Conservancy. Animals are classified as rodent1 (82914), fox (48150),…

Aerial Seabirds West Africa

Posted on December 1, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains high-resolution aerial RGB imagery obtained from a census of breeding seabirds in West Africa in 2019. The data was collected as part of a census of breeding seabirds along the West African coast where UAVs were…

HKH Glacier Mapping

Posted on November 6, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview The Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) glacier mapping dataset includes imagery of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) region, along with polygons indicating the locations of glaciers. This dataset is intended to facilitate the training of models that can identify glaciers…

Great Zebra and Giraffe Count and ID

Posted on August 27, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This dataset contains images of plains zebra (Equus quagga) and Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi) with bounding boxes and individual animal identifications. Images are taken from a two-day census of Nairobi National Park, located just south of the airport in…

Whale Shark ID

Posted on August 27, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains images of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) with bounding boxes and individual animal identifications. This dataset represents a collaborative effort based on the data collection and population modeling efforts conducted at Ningaloo Marine Park in Western…

Island Conservation Camera Traps

Posted on August 6, 2020August 28, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains approximately 123,000 camera trap images from 123 camera locations from 7 islands in 6 countries. Data were provided by Island Conservation during projects conducted to prevent the extinction of threatened species on islands. The most…

Adirondack Research Invasive Species Mapping

Posted on June 26, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains interpolated lake characteristics data of twelve lakes, including depth, substrate hardness, and vegetation presence. These data can be useful for calculating the probability of occurrence of other biological organisms that have habitat preferences related to…

Conservation Drones

Posted on February 18, 2020April 27, 2024 by lilawp

Overview Monitoring of protected areas to curb illegal activities like poaching is a monumental task. Real-time data acquisition has become easier with advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and sensors like TIR cameras, which allow surveillance at night when poaching…

Snapshot Karoo

Posted on January 4, 2020December 12, 2024 by lilawp

Overview This data set contains 14889 sequences of camera trap images, totaling 38074 images, from the Snapshot Karoo project, part of the Snapshot Safari network. Using the same camera trapping protocols at every site, Snapshot Safari members are collecting standardized…