Flora Incognita - a grant funded advert-free automated plant identification application using an open platform

Does not appear that the actual Android or iOS apps are open source software, but the data platform is an open one.

The Flora apps use traditional methods of species identification and benefit from the latest methods of artificial intelligence. This is already inspiring experts from biology and computer science – but also a large community of laymen and interested people.

Modern artificial intelligence techniques are used to perform this complex task. An image set of an individual is created with the camera of the smartphone. Here, the plant itself and additional plant parts relevant for the determination are taken up from clearly defined perspectives. The resulting data set allows an image-based taxon determination based on so-called „Deep Learning“ algorithms possible.

Taxa identified are transmitted together with their location, time of observation and additional data to central databases of nature conservation authorities and research institutions, where they can then be made available to interested parties and authorities in an open platform.

See The Flora Incognita research project | Flora Incognita - en

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24. June 2020 by Jana Wäldchen Jana Wäldchen and her team from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry have played a key role in developing the plant identification app, Flora Incognita. We discussed with her how being...more ...

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