Introducing a new citizen science nature app that’s geared towards the scientific community

PlantNet is the brainchild of a consortium composed of four French research organisations (CIRAD, Inria, INRAE and IRD) and the Agropolis Foundation. It has recorded over 80,000 plant species and registers, on average, 100,000-700,000 new users per day and is available in 54 languages. Plantnet.org, Fourni par l'auteur

Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data available to users of PlantNet – a “Shazam!” for plants. Pierre Bonnet and computer scientist Alexis Joly introduced us to the digitally enhanced plant recognition application they developed.

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