Dataset Card for wildwingdeployment

Dataset Details

This dataset contains video, telemetry, and autonomous navigation traces collected using the WildWing unmanned aerial system (UAS) deployment at The Wilds in July 2024.

Dataset Description

Homepage: https://imageomics.github.io/wildwing/
Repository: https://github.com/Imageomics/wildwing
Paper: WildWing: An open-source, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring

This dataset contains video frames collected at The Wilds Conservation Center in Ohio, USA, using drones. The Wilds is a 10,000 acre safari park and conservation center that is home to a variety of endangered species. The dataset includes one video of giraffes, one video Przewalski's horse, and three videos Grevy's Zebras. The dataset is intended for use in training and evaluating computer vision models for animal detection and classification from drone imagery.

Dataset Structure

/wildwingdeployment/
    giraffe_MMDDYY_HHMMSS/
        frames/
            40.jpg
            80.jpg
            ...
            n.jpg
        telemetry_log.csv
        video.MP4
    ...
    phorses_MMDDYY_HHMMSS/
        frames/
            40.jpg
            80.jpg
            ...
            n.jpg
        telemetry_log.csv
        video.MP4
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS/
        frames/
            40.jpg
            80.jpg
            ...
            n.jpg
        telemetry_log.csv
        video.MP4
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS/
        frames/
            40.jpg
            80.jpg
            ...
            n.jpg
        telemetry_log.csv
        video.MP4
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS/
        frames/
            40.jpg
            80.jpg
            ...
            n.jpg
        telemetry_log.csv
        video.MP4

/telemetry/
    giraffe_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv
    phorses_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv
    zebras_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv

Data Instances

The deployment data directory contains telemetry logs, video file, and frames produced for each session. The /frames/ subdirectory contain annotated video frames, downsampled every 40 frames. Each frame contains the YOLO-generated bounding box annotations which were used to inform the commands sent to the drone. The telemetry log contains the location of the drone and the commands sent to it at each frame. The MP4 file is the video recorded by the drone during the mission.

The telemetry logs are also available in a separate directory, /telemetry/, which contains the detailed telemetry logs for each session. The telemetry logs contain the location of the drone during the mission (GPS, altitude), the commands sent to the drone (move_x, move_y, move_z in meters), and the frame number sensed at that timestamp.

Data Fields

/wildwingdeployment/ telemetry_log.csv

Field	Description	Details
timestamp	YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS	Time of the drone mission data point
location	GPS coordinates and altitude	x: latitude y: longitude z: altitude (not accurate)
commands	Movement instructions in meters	move_x: x-axis movement in meters move_y: y-axis movement in meters move_z: z-axis movement in meters
frame	Reference to captured image	See frames/40.jpg, frames/80.jpg, etc.

/telemetry/ species_MMDDYY_HHMMSS_telemetry.csv

Field	Description	Details
timestamp	YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS	Time of the drone mission data point
location	GPS coordinates and altitude	x: latitude y: longitude z: altitude (not accurate)
commands	Movement instructions in meters	move_x: x-axis movement in meters move_y: y-axis movement in meters move_z: z-axis movement in meters
frame	Reference to captured image	See frames/40.jpg, frames/80.jpg, etc.
latitude	-	Direct latitude value
longitude	-	Direct longitude value
directory	-	Session in /wildwingdeployment/ the telemetry log belongs to
distance	meters	Distance travelled from launch point
bearing	degrees	Bearing from launch point
speed	meters/second	Speed of the drone

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The data gathered to test the WildWing autonomous UAS system, designed to collect animal behavior video data. The goal is to evaluate and improve autonomous tracking and video collection of endangered species in the wild.

Personal and Sensitive Information

This dataset contains endangered species: Przewalski's horses and Grevy's zebras. The dataset also includes clips of people in vehicles.

Other Known Limitations

There was an instrument failure which caused the altitude recordings to be inaccurate. The altitude is not accurate, but the x and y coordinates are accurate. The telemetry logs contain the location of the drone during the mission (GPS, altitude), the commands sent to the drone (move_x, move_y, move_z in meters), and the frame number sensed at that timestamp.

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Jenna Kline

Licensing Information

Creative Commons Zero 1.0 universal

Citation Information

Data

@misc{<Kline2024wildwingdeployment>,
  author = {Jenna Kline},
  title = {WildWing Deployment Dataset},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/wildwingdeployment},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14838101},
  publisher = {Zenodo}
}

Paper

@article{kline2025wildwing,
  title={WildWing: An open-source, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring},
  author={Kline, Jenna and Zhong, Alison and Irizarry, Kevyn and Stewart, Charles V and Stewart, Christopher and Rubenstein, Daniel I and Berger-Wolf, Tanya},
  journal={Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
  year={2025},
  doi={10.1111/2041-210X.70018},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

Contributions

The Imageomics Institute is funded by the US National Science Foundation's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program under Award #2118240 (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning). The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports ICICLE: Intelligent CI with Computational Learning in the Environment under grant number OAC-2112606. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

More Information

The data was gathered at The Wilds Conservation Center with permission from The Wilds Science Committee to take field observations and fly drones in the pastures.

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