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A drone imagery dataset for semantic segmentation of urban garden ground covers in biodiversity studies.

Yasamin Afrasiabian, Chenghao Lu, Anirudh Belwalkar, Hany Elsharawy, Xiaoxin Song, Ying Yuan, Fei Wu, Xiang Su, Elisa Van Cleemput, Monika Egerer and 1 more

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Yasamin AfrasiabianPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-6672-4095
Chenghao LuDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Anirudh BelwalkarPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Hany ElsharawyPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Xiaoxin SongPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Ying YuanPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Fei WuPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Xiang SuDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Elisa Van CleemputLeiden University College The Hague, Leiden University, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Monika EgererUrban Productive Ecosystems, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Hans Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany.
Kang YuPrecision Agriculture Lab, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Dürnast 9, 85354, Freising, Germany. kang.yu@tum.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0686-6783

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Abstract

Urban gardens promote urban biodiversity by providing diverse ground covers that support habitat provision, pollination, pest control, and soil functions. However, lacking high spatial resolution images, their spatial heterogeneity remains poorly mapped, limiting our understanding of how these features support ecosystem services. This study presents a high-resolution dataset derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) RGB imagery for the semantic segmentation of diverse ground covers in urban community gardens. The dataset consists of 2,521 images processed into 24 orthomosaics, acquired in 2021-2022 at five garden locations in Munich, Germany. Each image (18.9-146.4 M px; 3.2-7.9 mm resolution) is manually annotated into eight ground-cover classes (grass, herb, litter, soil, stone, straw, wood, and woodchip). We evaluated deep-learning segmentation models, including UNet and DeepLabV3+. The DeepLabV3+ (overall accuracy = 93.2% and Intersection over Union = 69.4) achieved high classification accuracy in distinguishing these complex classes. This dataset is intended to support research on urban biodiversity, habitat modelling, garden management, remote sensing research, and can be integrated with other fine-scale datasets to advance sustainable urban green planning.

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BiodiversityGardensUnmanned Aerial DevicesCitiesEcosystemGermanyRemote Sensing TechnologySemantics

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