By Columbia University, University of Maryland, and Smithsonian Institution
Greg's Review:
Crowd sourcing of science is going to get big over the next few years. The Leafsnap app is the first great example of this. You take a tree leaf and place it on a white piece of paper and snp a picture with the iPad2 or iPhone camera. The app identifies the leaf and puts a geo tag on it to record the location where it was found. This information is sent to universities so that they can better figure out tree species locations. Kids learn about nature and universities get access to free research workers. This would be a great app for a middle schools and junior high schools to use in science class projects.
From the Developer:
Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.
Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of the Northeast and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.
Devices: iPad
Category: Education
Price: Free
Link to app in iTunes
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