Plants & Fungus of the Monterey Bay

6-7-11

LeafSnap App rolled out today from a joint venture between Columbia University, University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. The new app for the iPad 2 and iPhone will revolutionize plant identification by allowing users to take a smart phone snapshot of a leaf on a hike or class trip and have that photo analyzed and tagged to identified leaves in the app's database. This is revolutionary technology and is based on face recognition software. Once this app is de-bugged it will have wide application in most branches of natural history. Click on the snapshot below to link to the site.