Pl@ntNet is a
citizen science
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project for
automatic
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Music Bands
* Automatic (band), Australian rock band
* Automatic (American band), American rock band
* The Automatic, a Welsh alternative rock band
Albums
* ''Automatic'' (Jack Bruce album), a 1983 electronic rock ...
plant identification through
photograph
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s and based on
machine learning.
History
This project launched in 2009 has been developed by scientists (
computer engineers
Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer enginee ...
and
botanists) from a
consortium
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gathering French
research institute
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s (
Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD),
(CIRAD),
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA),
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) and the network
Tela Botanica
Tela Botanica is a collaborative network of francophone botanists (about 47 000 enrolled in 110 countries at the beginning of 2020).
It served as a model for the network of entomologists Tela Insecta, which is developing in partnership with Te ...
, with the support of
Agropolis Fondation
Agropolis Fondation, extended name "Montpellier Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development” was created in France on February 21, 2007, by the three initial founding institutions INRA, CIRAD, and Montpellier SupAgro.
It constitutes th ...
).
Platforms
An
app
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* Application software
* Mobile app, software designed to run on smartphones and other mobile devices
* Web application or web app, software designed to run inside a web browser
* Adjusted Peak Performan ...
for smartphones (and a web version) was launched in 2013, which allows to
identify thousands of plant species from photographs taken by the user. It is available in several languages.
As of 2019 it had been downloaded over 10 million times, in more than 180 countries worldwide.
Projects
In 2019, Pl@ntNet has 22 projects:
References
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Internet properties established in 2009