What is a digital off -road guide?
Digital field guide is a modern electronic medium that helps identify plants or wildlife, similar to traditional field guides in the form of a book. Based on photos, text data and even audio recordings, digital or electronic field manuals provide information for better help users without having to carry heavy or bulky printed texts. In short, electronic field manuals are, electronic books or applications that users download to smartphones or other electronic devices such as a tablet computer or a personal digital assistant (PDA). For example, users can choose an animal reference book, a bird's reference book, or a book based on a specific city, country or region. Each book or application has its own features and advantages such as bird song recordings for Bird Reference Books or Photographs of Plant Identification. In terms of geographical specifics, users can choose digitalField guide with a wide regional legacy, such as Europe or a narrow regional range such as London or Boston.
A typical digital field guide is not interactive, which means that it serves only as a research and reference material with users to identify identification based on photographs, text descriptions and other data. Scientists continue to develop interactive applications that actively help users with identification technologies to recognize objects or sound. Users with suitable applications for digital terrain can take a photo of a particular sheet or flower and have the application automatically identified the species based on a catalog of photos and key characteristics. The application interprets a user -generated photograph or sound recording and is looking for key -linging points to identify.
2 in the United States with SmithsonianThe Washington Institution, Columbia University and National Science scientists participate in research projects involving the development of a digital field guide with automatic recognition. Using specimens that are already available to these institutions that are already available, scientists take high -resolution photos that include catalogs and databases. Since 2009, the Smithsonian Institute has seen more than 90,000 plant samples, while scientists in Columbia have seen more than 9,000 trees identification leaves. Other scientists have cataloged the dorsal fins for identification, recorded bird songs, and challenges to recognize sound, and created other records of plants and wilderness for other digital application.