Robotic Monitoring of Dunes: a dataset from the EU habitats 2110 and 2120 in Sardinia (Italy)

Data collected between the 16th and the 19th of May 2022, in Platamona, 07037 (SS), Sardinia, Italy, within the Natura 2000 SAC ITB010003. 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 three different sets of data: 
1) species data - pictures and videos of three different typical species of the habitat 2110 and 2120 and one alien species.
2) 3D mapping data - robot status and point cloud
3) monitoring mission data - robot status and 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.