Virginia Tech Tree ID

VirginiaTechTreeIdentificationbringstheawardwinningVirginiaTechdigitaldendrologymaterialtoyourAndroidsmartphone.Itcontainsfactsheetsforover1000woodyplantsfromalloverNorthAmericawithanin-depthdescription,rangemapandthousandsofcolorimagesofleaves,flowers,fruit,twigs,barkandform.
UserscannarrowthespecieslistforanylocationinNorthAmericausingthephone'sGPS,networksignaloranyenteredaddressorzipcode.Basicallytheapplicationcanbecome“WoodyPlantsofWhereYouAreStanding”.Forexample,itcanbecomethe“WoodyPlantsofSouthwesternOregon”,the“WoodyPlantsofCentralPark”ortheor“TheWoodyPlantsof37.108lat.,-80.452long.,elevation2118”.
Userscanfurthernarrowthespecieslistbyansweringaseriesofverysimpletreeattributequestionssuchaswheretheplantisgrowing,leafshape,leafarrangement,flowercolororfruittype.
Thespecieslistcanalsobenarrowedbytypingakeywordsuchasoak,Abies,redorpalm.Forexampleifoakistypedonlyoaksfoundinthedefinedareawillbelisted.
Afeaturealsoallowsyoutosendanytreerelatedquestionto“Dr.Dendro”,atreeexpertintheDepartmentofForestResourcesandEnvironmentalConservationatVirginiaTech.Youcansendatreedescriptionorpicturesofyourplantandexpertswillhelpwithidentification.
KEYFEATURES
•over1000woodyplantsfromalloverNorthAmerica
•Over6,500colorphotographsofleaves,flowers,fruit,twig,bark,form,andrangemapforeachspecies
•Indepthdescriptionofallplantparts
•NarrowsspecieslistbasedonyourlocationandelevationusingthephonesGPS,networksignaloruserenteredlocation
•Searchforspeciesbyakeyword,e.g.maple
•Identifyspeciesbyansweringaseriesofsimplequestions.Apictureisdisplayedshowingwhatisbeingasked.
•Navigatebetweenspecieswithapushofabutton.
•Sendatreequestionto“Dr.Dendro”atreeexpertatVirginiaTech
VIRGINIATECHTREEIDENTIFICATIONDIGITALMATERIAL
Visitourwebsitesat:http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu
WoodyPlantsinNorthAmerica,2018,Kendall/HuntPublishingisamultimediatutorialonDVDcoveringapproximately1000woodyplantswithnearly30,000colorphotographsofleaves(summerandfall),flowers,fruits,twigs,
barkandformforeachplant.Thesoftwaredisplaysmultipleimagesofallplantpartssousercandevelopa“feel”fornormalfieldvariation.Acustomizable,self-quizzingsectionallowsuserstoevaluatetheirprogressinplantidentification.Formorefeaturesonthissoftwarevisit:http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/wpina.htm

NOTES
The650MBdatabaseoftreephotographsandtextisdownloadedfromourserver.WerecommendyouinstallVirginiaTechTreeIdentificationusingafastWIFIconnection.Acellularconnectionwillgenerallybetooslow.

TextandphotographybyJohnR.Seiler,JohnA.PetersonDepartmentofForestResourcesandEnvironmentalConservation,VirginiaTechandEdJensen,ForestEcosystemsandSociety,OregonStateUniversity
ProgrammingbyMichaelWhittandRobertPotts