Ladybird Cobbitty 2017 Brassica Dataset

Ten weeks of weekly scans of cauliflower and broccoli crops from transplant to harvest. The dataset includes ground-truth crop measurements, environmental data from weather and soil sensors, and stereo color, thermal, and hyperspectral imagery collected by an autonomous robot. It was created by Asher Bender of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at the University of Sydney's Lansdowne Farm in Cobbitty, NSW, Australia.

Use Cases

• Train computer vision models for crop growth stage classification based on weekly stereo color and hyperspectral imagery.
• Develop predictive models for crop yield or health by correlating ground-truth physical characteristics with environmental sensor data.
• Benchmark multimodal fusion algorithms using aligned color, thermal, and hyperspectral image streams.
• Study plant-environment interactions over time using the synchronized crop scan and weather/soil sensor time series.

Strengths

• Includes multiple synchronized data modalities: imagery (stereo color, thermal, hyperspectral), environmental sensors, and physical crop measurements.
• Covers a complete ten-week growth cycle from transplant to harvest with weekly temporal resolution.
• Provides precise geographic context: data was collected at a known research farm with specific bed layout and crop counts (approximately 144 plants per bed).

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, University of Sydney.

Collection Method

Data collected by an autonomous agricultural robot performing weekly scans, supplemented by a weather station and soil-sensor network at Lansdowne Farm.

Time Range

Covers a ten-week growth cycle (specific year is 2017).

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Lansdowne Farm, Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia (70km south-west of Sydney).