California Native Plants and Pollinators with DINOv3 Image Features

California-native plants and observed flying pollinators from iNaturalist Research-grade observations. The dataset is encoded with DINOv3 ViT-L/16 features and is maintained by Ecological Intelligence, Inc. and the Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics Lab at UC Berkeley, with a last recorded update in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Train or fine-tune species identification models based on DINOv3-encoded visual features.
• Analyze spatial co-occurrence patterns between native plants and their pollinators.
• Study biodiversity and ecosystem health across California using self-supervised feature representations.

Strengths

• Features are derived from a self-supervised, state-of-the-art vision model (DINOv3 ViT-L/16).
• Data is sourced from a curated, research-grade community science platform (iNaturalist).
• Maintained by named research institutions (Ecological Intelligence, Inc. and UC Berkeley QED Lab).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and observational bias inherent to iNaturalist's user-contributed data.

Provenance

Source

iNaturalist Research-grade observations.

Collection Method

Self-supervised spatial-feature encoding with DINOv3 ViT-L/16.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 12:06:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

California, USA.