Nowadays, climate change is affecting the life on Earth. In our VIGIA (https://jivg.org/research-projects/vigia/) project we want to build a system for autonomous surveillance of protected areas. A first step is to recognize the vegetation inside the protected areas.

In this dataset, we are presenting more than 16,000 examples of a columnar cacti (Neobuxbaumia tetetzo) for plant recognition or classification.

More details about this dataset can be found at our research paper:
Efren López-Jiménez, Juan Irving Vasquez-Gomez, Miguel Angel Sanchez-Acevedo, Juan Carlos Herrera-Lozada, Abril Valeria Uriarte-Arcia, Columnar Cactus Recognition in Aerial Images using a Deep Learning Approach. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.05.005

or in Lopez-Jimenez's master thesis (in spanish):  
Efren López-Jiménez, Sistema embebido para la supervisión inteligente de terrenos con vehı́culos aéreos no tripulados. Master Thesis, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 2018.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19455.46246

Acknowledgements

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. Project cátedra 1507.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
Universidad de la Cañada.

Contributors

Eduardo Armas Garcia, Rafael Cano Martinez and Luis Cresencio Mota Carrera.  J.I. Vasquez-Gomez, JC. Herrera Lozada. Abril Uriarte, Miguel Sanchez.