Robotic Monitoring of Alpine Screes: a Dataset from the EU Natura2000 habitat 8110 in the Italian Alps

Data collected between the 19th and the 21rd of July 2022, in Valfurva, 23030 (SO), Italy, within the Stelvio National Park, located inside the Natura 2000 SPA IT2040044. The data acquisition has been conducted by a team composed of both robotic engineers and plant scientists. The platform used to collect the data is the ANYmal C quadrupedal robot.

The dataset contains two different sets of data:

1) typical and early warning species data - videos of seven different typical species of the habitat 8110 and one early warning species.

2) monitoring mission data - video of the monitoring mission, robot status and point clouds, pictures and videos taken by the robot during the autonomous surveys.

This dataset has a multidisciplinary scope and can be used by researchers in several fields. For instance, point clouds and information about the robot state could be used by robotic engineers to test or validate their own methods as well as benchmark the robot performance. On the other hand, plant videos and images recorded by the robot could be used by botanists to assess the quality of this information as well as the habitat's conditions, or by computer scientists interested in testing their AI algorithms for species detection and classification.