A new high-resolution camera at the CSIRO is set to photograph one million plant specimens in nine months, as researchers look into how the natural world is changing.
The plant objects, many collected as far back as a century ago, are being stored at the Australian National Herbarium in Canberra, but according to CSIRO group leader for digitisation Pete Thrall, it would take about eight years to digitise all of the specimens using a regular camera.
