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Tropical Rural Land & Vegetation Image Dataset

Ground-level photos of overgrown plots, gardens, paths and sheds in rural Southeast Asia: dense, messy tropical vegetation in real sunlight.

On request: this dataset is produced to your specification after you order. Typically 1–2 weeks for 500 images and 3–5 weeks for 2,000.

  • Dry leaf litter covering cleared ground beside a fence, with trees and an open field under a clear sky
  • Overgrown rural lot with dense shrubs and weeds, a metal-roofed shed and palm trees in the background
  • Thick tropical undergrowth with feathery leaves in the foreground and a banana plant behind
  • Young trees and tall grass in an unmanaged garden plot under dappled sunlight

Pricing

Fixed prices for standard packages, produced to your spec. Pick a package and a license to see the exact total, or ask for a custom quote.

Packages compared
FeatureStarterProCustom
images5002,000Any quantity
What's included
  • 500 full-resolution images
  • metadata.jsonl with device, exposure and topic labels
  • Datasheet, license and checksums
  • 2,000 full-resolution images
  • Everything in Starter
  • Human-written English caption per image
Your quantity, annotations and deadline
Datasheet, license, checksumsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Research license$490$0.98 / image$1,490$0.75 / imageQuote
Commercial license$1,250$2.50 / image$3,900$1.95 / imageQuote
Exclusive license$4,900$9.80 / image$14,900$7.45 / imageQuote

How ordering works

  1. 1Choose a package and license and place your order. No payment is taken online.
  2. 2Within 48 hours our team contacts you to confirm the spec and invoices a 50% deposit.
  3. 3We produce and deliver in parts so you can review early. Typically 1–2 weeks for 500 images and 3–5 weeks for 2,000.
  4. 4Pay the balance and download the final dataset.

Custom quote

Need another quantity, an Enterprise license or annotations for this dataset? Available here:

  • Scene labels
  • Human-written captions
  • Segmentation masks (vegetation, soil, structure, sky)
Request a custom quote

Overview

Most vegetation datasets come from satellites, drones or temperate parks. Robots, inspection tools and mapping models that work on the ground in the tropics face something else: tangled undergrowth, banana plants, ferns, dry leaf litter, half-hidden fences and sheds, all under harsh midday sun.

This dataset is photographed at eye level on rural land in Southeast Asia: overgrown lots, gardens, field edges, footpaths and outbuildings. Images keep the natural clutter and lighting that models will meet in the field.

Sample photos

Real photos from this topic, shown at reduced resolution. Full-resolution samples are emailed on request.

  • Dry leaf litter covering cleared ground beside a fence, with trees and an open field under a clear sky
  • Overgrown rural lot with dense shrubs and weeds, a metal-roofed shed and palm trees in the background
  • Thick tropical undergrowth with feathery leaves in the foreground and a banana plant behind
  • Young trees and tall grass in an unmanaged garden plot under dappled sunlight
  • Climbing vine covering the edge of a weathered brick shed with a corrugated metal roof
  • Dirt path through mixed tropical vegetation with trees, banana plants and ferns

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We email you full-resolution samples for this topic.

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Technical specifications

Capture device
Smartphones (device model recorded per image in EXIF)
File format
JPEG (original HEIC on request)
Resolution
Native sensor resolution, e.g. 4032×2268 for current samples
Scenes
Overgrown lots, gardens, field edges, footpaths, sheds and fences
Location
Southeast Asia (region level only)
Metadata
metadata.jsonl with device, exposure, timestamp, dimensions, scene labels
Privacy processing
People and faces blurred, GPS removed
License
Research, Commercial, Enterprise or Exclusive

Use cases

  • Vegetation segmentation

    Train models to separate grass, shrubs, trees, bare soil, leaf litter and structures in dense tropical scenes.

  • Land-use & land-cover ground truth

    Pair ground-level photos with remote-sensing data to validate land-cover classes in Southeast Asia.

  • Outdoor & agricultural robotics

    Teach mowers, field robots and drones-on-the-ground to recognise traversable paths and obstacles in rough terrain.

  • Property & site assessment

    Estimate overgrowth, clearing needs or fire-fuel load (dry litter) from casual phone photos of a plot.

How this data is made

  1. 1Captured on a smartphone by a person
  2. 2Duplicates and near-duplicates removed
  3. 3Blurry and broken images filtered out
  4. 4Faces and license plates detected and blurred
  5. 5Every image reviewed by a person
  6. 6GPS stripped; device EXIF kept
  7. 7Labels, captions and metadata.jsonl generated
  8. 8Datasheet and license packaged with the delivery
Read our full process

Provenance & legal

  • 100% made by people: no scraping, no generative AI
  • Datasheet documenting how the data was made, checked and its limitations
  • Commercial license that lets you keep models trained on the data
  • Supports training-data documentation under the EU AI Act
Licensing options

Dataset-specific notes

  • People are not the subject; anyone in frame is blurred by hand after review.
  • Location is recorded at region level only; exact GPS is removed from every file.

Example metadata record

One line of metadata.jsonl per image. Fields vary with the annotation options you choose; values shown are illustrative.

{
  "id": "rlv-000017",
  "file": "images/rlv-000017.jpg",
  "scene": "overgrown-lot",
  "topic": "rural-land-vegetation",
  "width": 4032,
  "device": {
    "make": "Apple",
    "model": "iPhone 11"
  },
  "height": 2268,
  "region": "Southeast Asia",
  "privacy": {
    "gps_removed": true,
    "faces_blurred": 0
  },
  "caption_en": "Overgrown rural lot with dense shrubs and weeds, a metal-roofed shed and palm trees behind.",
  "conditions": [
    "midday-sun",
    "clear-sky"
  ],
  "captured_at": "2026-03-20T09:18:16+07:00"
}

Each delivery contains:

rural-land-vegetation-v1/
├── images/
├── metadata.jsonl
├── DATASHEET.md
├── LICENSE.pdf
└── checksums.sha256

Frequently asked questions

Are these drone or satellite images?

No. Every image is taken at eye level with a smartphone, which complements aerial data you may already have.

Can you collect specific vegetation types or seasons?

Yes. Tell us the plant types, terrain or season (dry vs rainy) you need and we will confirm feasibility in the quote.

Do you provide segmentation masks?

Masks can be added on request. Send your class list and we will include it in the quote.

How does ordering and payment work?

Create a free account and place your order on this page; nothing is charged online. Our team contacts you to confirm the spec and invoices a 50% deposit, with the balance due on final delivery. The deposit is refunded in full if we cannot deliver the agreed spec.

What is the difference between non-exclusive and Exclusive?

With Research or Commercial we may license the images produced for your order to other buyers later. With Exclusive they are never licensed to anyone else or added to our catalog.

Can I order a different quantity or extra annotations?

Yes. Request a custom quote with the quantity, annotations and deadline you need. Prices per record fall as quantity grows.

Why is a bundle so much cheaper per image than a single image?

A bundle is planned and collected as one job, so capture, review and privacy processing cost far less per photo. Single images are priced for buyers who need just a few specific photos.

Need a variation?

Different topics, languages, difficulty, quantity or labels? Describe it and we reply within 48 hours with matching samples and a quote.

Request a quote

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