Robotic Monitoring of Grasslands: a Dataset on European Union Natura2000 habitat 6210

Data collected between the 10 and the 13 of May 2022, in Valsorda, Gualdo Tadino 06023 (PG), Italy, inside the Natura 2000 SAC IT5210014. 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 - pictures and videos of two different typical species of the habitat 6210 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.This research is partially supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101016970 (Natural Intelligence) and in part by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as part of the PON 2014-2021 "Research and Innovation" resources – Green Action - DM MUR 1062/2021