The Herbarium 2021 Half-Earth Challenge Dataset

Understand

Herbarium sheets present a unique view of the world's botanical history, evolution, and diversity.

• This makes them an all-important data source for botanical research.
• With the increased digitisation of herbaria worldwide and the advances in the fine-grained classification domain that can facilitate automatic identification of herbarium specimens, there are a lot of opportunities for supporting research in this field.
• However, existing datasets are either too small, or not diverse enough, in terms of represented taxa, geographic distribution or host institutions.