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ArticleScientific data2025

Ground-truthed and high-resolution drone images of the leafy spurge weed plant (Euphorbia esula).

Kyle Doherty, Max Gurinas, Erik Samsoe, Charles Casper, Beau Larkin, Philip Ramsey, Brandon Trabucco, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Kyle DohertyMPG Ranch, Aerial Survey Program, Missoula, MT, USA. kdoherty@mpgranch.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3742-7839
Max GurinasUniversity of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Chicago, IL, USA.
Erik SamsoeMPG Ranch, Aerial Survey Program, Missoula, MT, USA.
Charles CasperMPG Ranch, Aerial Survey Program, Missoula, MT, USA.
Beau LarkinMPG Ranch, Aerial Survey Program, Missoula, MT, USA.
Philip RamseyMPG Ranch, Aerial Survey Program, Missoula, MT, USA.
Brandon TrabuccoCarnegie Mellon University, Department of Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PN, USA.
Ruslan SalakhutdinovCarnegie Mellon University, Department of Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PN, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This dataset comprises 1.3 cm resolution aerial images of grasslands in western Montana, USA, captured by a commercial drone. Many scenes contain leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula), introduced to North America, now widespread in rangeland ecosystems, which is highly invasive and damaging to crop production and biodiversity. Technicians surveyed 1000 points in the study area, noting spurge presence or absence, and recorded each point's position with precision global navigation satellite systems. We cropped tiles from an orthomosaic image at these locations. We publicly release these images and metadata as a Hugging Face Dataset, accessible in one line of code. Our aim is to invite the research community to develop classifiers as early warning systems for spurge invasion. We tested classification performance for two contemporary vision models and achieved 0.85 test accuracy. This demonstrates the feasibility yet difficulty of this classification task.

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EuphorbiaPlant WeedsUnmanned Aerial DevicesGrasslandIntroduced SpeciesMontana

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PMID40328796
PMCPMC12056026

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