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), bird (11099), skunk (1071), or other (159). 114,949 images (47%) are empty.
1All images of rats were taken on islands already known to have rat populations.
Citation, license, and contact information
If you use these data in a publication or report, please use the following citation:
The Nature Conservancy (2021): Channel Islands Camera Traps 1.0. The Nature Conservancy. Dataset.
For questions about this data set, contact Nathaniel Rindlaub at The Nature Conservancy.
This data set is released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant).
The original data set included a “human” class label; for privacy reasons, we have removed those images from this version of the data set. Those labels are still present in the metadata.
Data format
Annotations 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 (18MB).
