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PLANTS & BIRDS APPS
WATCH / PHOTOGRAPH / IDENTIFY
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PLUGGING INTO NATURE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Prof.dr. Andreea Movila Prof. Dan Costea

APPLICATIONS FOR APPLE / ANDROID
 Garden Compass - SmartPlant™ (APPLE only)
 FlowerChecker
 Plantifier
 Leafsnap
 NatureGate
 iPflanzen
 Plantnet
 Ciupercomania
 GardenAnswers Plant Identifier
 TreeID
 Ornithopedia Europe
 Insect Identification: PestPro
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Garden Compass - SmartPlant™ (APPLE only)
 What is the name of that plant or
flower? Need help keeping your
plants alive?
Garden Compass’ intuitive app
gives your plants a voice. Our
unique & personalized care
calendar seamlessly ties together
your plants & our experts through a
simple & understandable platform.
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FlowerChecker
(Plant Identification Service)
How long does it take to determine a plant?
Is the service free?
Should I upload more than one photo?
How reliable is the answer?
What are legal terms regarding photographs I upload?
I like what you are doing and I'm good at plant identifications,
can I join you?
Where can I ask for help?
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How long does it takes to determine a plant?
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For how long will you find a certain plant?
Quantities
determined

Should I upload more than one photo?
Some plants are not easy to identify.
Try to capture photos of the whole plant and different plant parts such as
flower, leaf or stem.
It will help us with the identification and thus shorten our response time!
WARNING:
All uploaded requests are stored in our database for market analysis. By
uploading images, you grant FlowerChecker non-exclusive, transferable,
sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use the images.
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Ciupercomania
 Ciupercomania is an useful app developed by a
Romanian team for amateur to professional
mushroom finders to quickly identify gathered
fungi from the wild. It provides information
about all kind of mushrooms;
 it's mainly focused on macro fungi, but listing
micro fungi as well.
 And it's perfect for offline working, since it has
inbuilt database;
 offering a perfect mobility even where you don't
have wi-fi or mobile coverage.
Features:
 search by name or part of it;
 filter by parameters;
 favorites marking and browsing;
 language select and a basic help regarding
mushroom morphology.
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Every record is syncronized with IndexFungorum at the time of it’s entry registration and
comes with a high quality zoomable image slide; a set of icon badges (related to the
species edibility, medicinal properties, spore mass color, occurrence and it’s state of
protection (Red list listing).
 As preinstalled database, it includes a
small demo database with only 5 records,
which offers a full image about what this
app can do, letting the user to choose
which step to take further.
 From the preferences page, every user can
choose from 2 bigger databases:
1. a smaller database which includes records
with full descriptions (116 species on
01.02.2016, of about 32Mb data)
2. a bigger database with all current records
(2031 species on 23.11.2016, of about
500Mb data).
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GardenAnswers Plant Identifier
 Garden Answers is the revolutionary plant identification app that instantly identifies over 20,000
plants and gives you accurate and detailed information about it.
 Features:
 Simple interface that is point-and-
click easy to use.
 Identify almost any plant within
seconds.
 Keyword searchable database to find
even more information about a plant.
 Save your favorite matches under
the Favorites tab.
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 If you're concerned about a
plant disease or insect
infestation, you can use the
keyword search feature
within Garden Answers.
 It contains answers to over
200,000 commonly asked
plant questions.
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TreeID
This app helps you to identify around 370 common tree species. These trees occur all over
the world, but are chosen to reflect species that are seen in cities and towns.
 To identify a tree, the app will ask a short
series of questions then give you a short list
of possible matching trees to compare
against.
 Each tree has a details page, with
expandable images.
 There is also a search function that will
match both common names and scientific
names of trees in the database.
 The data and the questions come from the
Urban Tree Key
(http://urbantreekey.calpoly.edu/).
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Ornithopedia Europe
 Ornithopedia Europe offers a searchable list
of all 1144 birds in the Western Palearctic
(includes all of Europe with nearby parts of
western Asia and northern parts of Africa) in
19 languages.
 The app comes with over 3200 pictures,
29.000 streaming sound files and 2500
streaming Youtube videos and much
more. You can also include your own
content (pictures or sounds) seamlessly.
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The modules currently available are:
 High quality version of all 3200
pictures (+ 161 MB-440 MB,
depending on the module chosen)
 4 Different Sound modules, with
between 600 and 3000 Sound files
(+ 130 MB-1.1 GB, depending on the
module chosen)
 Offline Wikipedia article for all birds
(+ 3-50 MB each, depending on the
language selected)
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Insect Identification: PestPro
The PestPro
app is one of
the best
insect
identification
app out there
and... it’s free.
How It Works:
Describe your
bug situation by
answering the
questions the
app gives you.
The developers
have a team of
people who
identify each
creature
individually.
They make this
app the perfect
bug identifier.
You'll get an
insect report in
your email once
the team looks it
over.
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Pl@nt Net
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Downloading and Installing
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