A lover of plants or nature in general, you may have already had the urge to be able to identify a plant species that catches your eye. Whether it’s for a project or just out of curiosity and a desire to learn more about the flora around you, it’s possible! Through an online identification tool that uses artificial intelligence. The name of this tool is simply WhatisthePlant.
Whatistheplant, a project bringing together several plant specialists
WhatisthePlant is a project put together by the amazing iNaturalist team. It is both a citizen science project and an online social network. It brings together naturalists, citizen scientists but also biologists. The objective of this team was to develop a concept for mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity around the world.
To do this, this iNaturalist team has trained machine learning models that allowidentify a plant from a photo. And the identification process is constantly evolving as the results are based on CNN technology related to deep learning or deep learning and the collection of more than one hundred thousand photos of plants.
To use this online tool, you first need to go to the Whatistheplant website. You will then only have to download plant photo to obtain all the related information in a few seconds.
The process of analysis and recognition is very fast. In addition to analyzing the plant image, Whatistheplant will point you to several possible outcomes. The information provided by the site will be very reliable as they are based on trusted sources such as the World Farmers’ Organization (WFO), the POWO online database and Wikipedia.
In short, Whatistheplant is a very effective tool for identifying a plant. It will allow you to easily identify more than 10,000 species of plants. It’s the perfect online tool to learn more about plants. It allows you to have the advice of an expert in plants and / or gardening at your fingertips anywhere and anytime.