[Taxacom] Leafsnap - iPhone field guide using visual search

[Anthony Pigott]

Hello. 

 

I just came across this. Does anyone have any experience of it and its
effectiveness? Sounds as if it could be a morphological equivalent to the
legendary DNA Barcode handheld sensor. ;-)

 

Regards

 

Anthony

 

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/83-mobliephone/2383-first-iphone-field-gui
de-using-visual-search.html

"Leafsnap is an electronic field guide that allows users to identify tree
species simply by taking a photograph of the tree's leaves.

In addition to the species name, Leafsnap - like its traditional printed
book counterparts - provides photographs and information about the tree's
flowers, fruit, seeds and bark. Currently Leafsnap's database includes the
trees of the Northeast U.S., but it will soon expand to cover the trees of
the entire continental United States.

The app was devised by experts from Columbia University, the University of
Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution."