{"id":1432,"date":"2011-05-30T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2011-05-30T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:24:25","slug":"leafspan-take-your-ipad-2-into-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2011\/05\/30\/leafspan-take-your-ipad-2-into-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"LeafSpan – Take Your iPad 2 Into the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my undergrad majors was biology and I can still remember the expectations for one of the botany courses. For the final, we walked around campus and the prof would point at a tree or shrub and ask a question – mostly what is it. We would have to write down a response. I was pretty good at that kind of thing, but must confess the direction of my career since has not encouraged a lot of practice and I remember very little now.<\/p>\n

We do own several plant identification books. Mostly, we seem to purchase these resources when we are on a trip and want identify what we find on hikes. Cindy has a great collection of wild flower photographs. I have a great collection of pictures of Cindy taking pictures of wild flowers.<\/p>\n

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The identification guide resources we use may soon change. I ran across this iPad app on LifeHacker<\/a> and had to give it a try. LeafSnap<\/a> is an electronic field guide developed by researchers from several prestigious universities that allows you to both collect and identify specimens. Here is how the systems works for trees. You take a leaf and put it on a white background and then upload the image. The system makes an attempt to identify the tree and offers options. I do think the system got my test specimen correct because the tree did have white bark was probably a birch (we were staying at the home of relatives in northeast Minnesota).<\/p>\n

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We also saw four bears walking across the road on our little road trip. I did not grab the ipad and chase them through the woods.<\/p>\n

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