EcoWikiRS: Learning Ecological Representation of Satellite Images from Weak Supervision with Species Observations and Wikipedia
Paper • 2504.19742 • Published
Datasets:
id stringlengths 15 15 | EUNIS class label 25
classes | species_list listlengths 1 217 | image imagewidth (px) 200 206 | species_text stringlengths 536 3.06M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2665937_1209330 | 2053 | [
"Stachys recta",
"Salvia pratensis",
"Lysimachia vulgaris",
"Lotus corniculatus",
"Tussilago farfara",
"Achillea millefolium",
"Filipendula ulmaria"
] | {"Stachys recta": {"keywords": ["Close-up on flowers of S. recta subsp. recta The biological form of S. recta is hemicryptophyte scapose, as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect with a few leaves.", "Stachys recta grows in lawns, in semi-dry and dry g... | |
2715204_1279681 | 2154 | [
"Lathyrus vernus"
] | {"Lathyrus vernus": {"keywords": ["Lathyrus vernus, the spring vetchling, spring pea, or spring vetch, is a species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Lathyrus, native to forests of Europe and Siberia.", "This species, and the cultivar 'Alboroseus', have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award ... | |
2713921_1239786 | 524 | [
"Clinopodium vulgare",
"Ononis spinosa",
"Lathyrus pratensis"
] | {"Clinopodium vulgare": {"keywords": ["Clinopodium vulgare, the wild basil, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae.", "The inflorescence is a terminal spike consisting of several loose whorls of clusters of flowers growing in the axils of the leaves.", "Wild basil occurs in suitable locations in most o... | |
2799197_1142057 | 014 | [
"Eriophorum scheuchzeri"
] | {"Eriophorum scheuchzeri": {"keywords": ["Eriophorum scheuchzeri is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names Scheuchzer's cottongrass and white cottongrass.", "It has an arctic circumpolar and circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.", "It can be found in Alaska, across Ca... | |
2619616_1264219 | 2457 | [
"Symphoricarpos albus"
] | {"Symphoricarpos albus": {"keywords": ["Symphoricarpos albus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry.", "Native to North America, it is browsed by some animals and planted for ornamental and ecological purposes, but is poisonous to humans.", "S. albus is an er... | |
2705595_1155687 | 1243 | [
"Arnica montana",
"Lasiocampa quercus",
"Nucifraga caryocatactes"
] | {"Arnica montana": {"keywords": ["Arnica montana, also known as wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mountain tobacco and mountain arnica, is a moderately toxic European flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.", "Arnica montana Arnica montana is a flowering plant about tall aromatic fragrant, herbaceous perennial. Its... | |
2585746_1116241 | 2457 | [
"Lepidium draba"
] | {"Lepidium draba": {"keywords": ["Whitetop has slightly domed flower clusters in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points off the branch to approximately the same height .", "It is native to western Asia and southeastern Europe and is an invasive species in North America, introduced by contami... | |
2618462_1127487 | 524 | [
"Columba palumbus"
] | {"Columba palumbus": {"keywords": ["Photograph taken in Cambridge, England The common wood pigeon or common woodpigeon , also known as simply wood pigeon, wood-pigeon or woodpigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family , native to the western Palearctic.", "It has a flexible diet, predominantly feeding on ... | |
2613262_1121499 | 1344 | [
"Tettigonia viridissima",
"Cervus elaphus"
] | {"Tettigonia viridissima": {"keywords": ["This species can be encountered in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa, especially in meadows, grasslands, prairies and occasionally in gardens at an elevation up to above sea level.", "Tettigonia viridissima is distinguished b... | |
2568424_1201267 | 321 | [
"Aruncus dioicus"
] | {"Aruncus dioicus": {"keywords": ["Aruncus dioicus, known as goat's beard, buck's-beard or bride's feathers, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Rosaceae, found in Europe, Asia, and eastern and western North America.", "It has alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin, stiff stems, with plumes o... | |
2600933_1227830 | 2154 | [
"Salvia pratensis"
] | {"Salvia pratensis": {"keywords": ["Salvia pratensis, the meadow clary or meadow sage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa.", "The Latin specific epithet pratensis means \"of meadows\", referring to its preferred habitat.", "It also grows in scrub ... | |
2602673_1256526 | 1141 | [
"Cardamine heptaphylla",
"Mercurialis perennis"
] | {"Cardamine heptaphylla": {"keywords": ["Cardamine heptaphylla, common name pinnate coralroot is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.", "The genus name cardamine is derived from the Greek kardamon, cardamom - an unrelated plant in the ginger family, used as a pungent spice in cooking.", "This specie... | |
2582690_1130059 | 1749 | [
"Caltha palustris"
] | {"Caltha palustris": {"keywords": ["Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.", "It flowers between April and August, dependent on... | |
2657442_1142743 | 423 | [
"Ptyonoprogne rupestris"
] | {"Ptyonoprogne rupestris": {"keywords": ["It breeds in the mountains of southern Europe, northwestern Africa and across the Palearctic.", "Many European birds are resident, but some northern populations and most Asian breeders are migratory, wintering in northern Africa, the Middle East or India.", "The Eurasian crag m... | |
2683826_1239776 | 2457 | [
"Impatiens parviflora"
] | {"Impatiens parviflora": {"keywords": ["Flower Impatiens parviflora is a species of annual herbaceous plants in the family Balsaminaceae, native to some areas of Eurasia, naturalized elsewhere and found in damp shady places.", "Impatiens parviflora can grow in sandy, loamy, and clay soils and prefer moist soil.", "Im... | |
2567333_1131929 | 1952 | [
"Colchicum autumnale"
] | {"Colchicum autumnale": {"keywords": ["Colchicum autumnale, commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron, or naked ladies, is a toxic autumn-blooming flowering plant that resembles the true crocuses, but is a member of the plant family Colchicaceae, unlike the true crocuses, which belong to the family Iridaceae.", "... |
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EcoWikiRS: Learning Ecological Representations of Satellite Images from Weak Supervision with Species Observations and Wikipedia
Authors
Valerie Zermatten · Javiera Castillo-Navarro · Pallavi Jain · Devis Tuia · Diego Marcos
Overview
The WikiRS dataset, composed of triplets of images, species list and Wikipedia sentences :
- 91k high-resolution aerial images (50cm, RGB bands) from the swissIMAGE product
- crowd-sourced species observations from 2745 different species, collected from GBIF, geolocated within the footprint of the aerial image.
- 103K different sentences describing the habitat of the observed species, extracted from the corresponding Wikipedia article.
Data formats in this repository
1. Original raw data
- In
ecowikirs.zip - Original data structure used in the codebase and archived on Zenodo
- Intended for full reproducibility
2. Hugging Face processed version
- In the
data/directory - Automatically loaded via
load_dataset("EPFL-ECEO/EcoWikiRS")
HF Features
- id (string): Unique site/sample identifier
- EUNIS (ClassLabel): Habitat class label. Original codes remapped to contiguous indices to handle gaps.
- species_list (list[string]): All species recorded at the site.
- image (Image): PIL image from TIFF file (
swissimage/{id}.tifin the raw data). - species_text (json string): Aggregated JSON data per species (from
wiki/{species_name}.jsonin the raw data), keyed by binomial_name, including keywords, habitat_section, and random_sentences.
Notes
EUNIS labels have been remapped in the Hugging Face processed version to contiguous integers. The mapping is the following:
{0: 14, 1: 15, 2: 16, 3: 21, 4: 23, 5: 24, 6: 25, 7: 26, 8: 31, 9: 32, 10: 40, 11: 41, 12: 43, 13: 44, 14: 45, 15: 47, 16: 48, 17: 49, 18: 50, 19: 52, 20: 53, 21: 54, 22: 55, 23: 56, 24: 57}
How to cite this work:
@InProceedings{Zermatten_2025_WikiRS,
author = { Zermatten, Valerie and Castillo-Navarro, Javiera and Jain, Pallavi and Tuia, Devis and Marcos, Diego},
title = {EcoWikiRS: Learning Ecological Representations of Satellite Images from Weak Supervision with Species Observations and Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2025},
pages = {00-00}
}
Additional data information
More information on the EUNIS ecosystem type map is available on the European Environment Agency website : Ecosystem type map (all classes).
The raw aerial images with 10cm resolution from the swissIMAGE product can be openly downloaded from the swisstopo website
Contacts & Information
- Contact Email: valerie.zermatten@epfl.ch
- Shared by: ECEO Lab
- License: MiT License
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