Botanist in Your Pocket

The first application for iPhone and iPod Touch to allow identification of plants is in Estonian and helps to identify Estonian tree and shrub species.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"40065","attributes":{"alt":"","title":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","wysiwyg":1}}]]The eFloora application allows users to:

1) Identify more than 140 tree and shrub species in Estonia
2) See the explanatory files and access the photo gallery
3) Search by keywords
4) Post the identified species to Facebook
5) Take pictures and add field notes to one's guide
6) Send multimedia content (pictures and notes) stored in the device via email

The application is available to download from the iTunes App Store for 2,39 EUR.

It is a prototype to be extended soon to the whole flora of Estonia, already available for web users, and to other guides in more languages.

The eFloora application is a fruit of international collaboration between the educational project KeyToNature, the University of Tartu, the Estonian University for Life Sciences and Divulgando srl.

For additional info, please contact Tiina Randlane, Associate Professor of UT Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences: [email protected] or +372 737 6232.


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