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21st May 2011, 10:52 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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iPhone Species Identification App
Interesting. Although the app is US centric at the moment, I wonder how long it would take to get something up and going here in Australia? Imagine all the species that would need cataloguing?
LeafSnap is a new iPhone app that uses facial recognition techniques to identify trees based on photos of their leaves.
Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.
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Your very own CSIRO Forest Products people created a needle-sort data base of some 700 species, back in the late 1960's. I have used it.
Somehow, I think it would be a monumental stretch to sort out 400+ species of Eucalyptus, based on leaf shape.
With all due respect, you may not know that, by comparison, North America has far, far, fewer timbers of economic importance when compared with what you have. Maybe 50-60, softwoods/conifers included. Less than 40% actually have a footprint in the marketplace.
I have the set of Canadian Woods of Economic Importance, little slabs 6mm x 100mm x 150mm, labeled in English, French and Latin. 40 species in the set and I have NO IDEA why many are included.
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