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Developing Digital Field Guides For Plants: A Study From The Perspective Of Users, Emily Roseanne Schwarz
Developing Digital Field Guides For Plants: A Study From The Perspective Of Users, Emily Roseanne Schwarz
Master's Theses
A field guide is a tool to identify an object of natural history. Field guides
cover a wide range of topics from plants to fungi, birds to mammals, and shells to minerals. Traditionally, field guides are books, usually small enough to be carried outdoors . They enjoy wide popularity in modern life; almost every American home and library owns at least one field guide, and the same is also true for other areas of the world.
At this time, companies, non-profits, and universities are developing computer
technologies to replace printed field guides for identifying plants. This thesis
examines the state …