Project-AgML/image_safari_maize_ciat_arusha

Image Safari Maize Ciat Arusha

Unlabeled RGB field photographs of maize taken at the CIAT Arusha site (Arusha, Tanzania) from 2025-10-15 to 2025-12-05 for the Image Safari project, which collected a large, diverse set of crop images across sub-Saharan Africa as a foundation for AI/ML modeling. Images were captured with smartphone cameras under the abc_phone_approach collection protocol and are stored exactly as delivered (original JPEG/WebP bytes, no resizing or re-encoding). Every row keeps all of the image's source metadata: its JSON sidecar verbatim in metadata_json (present for 5,105 of 5,115 images) and its row of the project's ingest table in ingest_json, plus flattened, typed columns for every field that varies within this subset (capture date and time, GPS position, plot ID, growth stage, camera make and model, device azimuth/pitch/roll, image-quality statistics, and model-predicted image type and blur scores). This is one of 59 Image Safari subsets, split by crop and collection site. The dataset contains 5,115 images with no classification, segmentation, or bounding-box annotations.

This dataset is indexed on https://project-agml.github.io/ as part of the AgML python library.

Citation

@article{Mutuvi_2026,
  title = {Artemis and Image Safari - crop imagery datasets spanning globally critical crop species},
  author = {Mutuvi, Stephen and Guerena, David and Zych, Marcin and Henday, Shekinah and Girma, Ellena and Mungubariki, Tumaini and Agesa, Beverly and Zochowski, Marek and Ciolek, Daniel and Lazowik, Michael and Chen, Jiehua and Goeke, Leah and Omwandho, Justine and del Palma, Grace and Malabi, Jackson and Phomebeya, Sithembinkosi and Sanena, Maria and Marcos, Juliana T. C. and Ghandi, Harish and Nas, Mark and Rathore, Abhishek and Mendes, Thiago and Yadav, Shailesh and Adjah, Kossi Lorimpo and Woltering, Lennart and Lekasio, Elice and Mushi, Bryton and Abraham, Leah and Katunzi, Gaudensia and Remy, Sekou L. and Siyavora, Tavonga and Selvaraj, Michael and Casas, Jorge and Boukar, Ousmane and Ongom, Patrick and Nakato, Gloria Valentine and Mwanje, Gerald and Agre, Paterne and Laporte, Marie-Angélique and Asefa, Teshale and Odama, Roy and Mukankusi, Clare and Wu, William},
  journal = {agriRxiv},
  publisher = {CABI Publishing},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.31220/agriRxiv.2026.00491},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.31220/agriRxiv.2026.00491}
}

This dataset was reformatted from its original format to match HuggingFace standards.