The Eastern England Blackgrass Dataset consists of images of blackgrass in wheat and barley crops collected from 51 fields across eight different soil types in the east of England, a key grain growing region of the UK, between 3rd November 2020 and 16th October 2021. More information about the dataset can be found in our paper.

		Train	Validation	Test	Total
Class	Blackgrass	5770	1023	1095	7888
	No Blackgrass	5982	1036	1023	8041
Crop Type	Winter Wheat	9425	1731	1569	12725
	Spring Barley	542	123	372	1037
	Winter Barley	1613	205	177	1995
Season	Early	3631	335	583	4549
	Mid	4571	841	1166	6578
	Late	3550	883	369	4802

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If you use our dataset, we would appreciate it if you could cite our paper:

@article{darbyshire2025multispectral,
  title={Multispectral fine-grained classification of blackgrass in wheat and barley crops},
  author={Darbyshire, Madeleine and Coutts, Shaun and Hammond, Eleanor and Gokbudak, Fazilet and Oztireli, Cengiz and Bosilj, Petra and Gao, Junfeng and Sklar, Elizabeth and Parsons, Simon},
  journal={Computers and Electronics in Agriculture},
  volume={237},
  pages={110484},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Code

The code used in our experiments is available at: https://github.com/madeleinedarbyshire/BlackgrassBenchmarks

Contact

Any questions or queries about the dataset contact Madeleine Darbyshire (25696989@students.lincoln.ac.uk).