Purposes:
1. Take the picture of an insect from the ARP system;
2. Compare this picture with those in a image database;
3. Provide relevant results if the image is similar to some insect images;
4. Collect GPS data while confirm some interesting insect groups;
5. Automatic raise the question on the taxonomy informations if the previous image was possibly wrongly identified.
6. Share the image with taxonomy if the author would like to do it for other public media.
I wrote a blog in Chinese asking the same question below -
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-536560-1047778.html
We are still far away from the best result but there are some models especially in honeybees and some solitary bees based on wing images BUT clearly only morphological features will never be enough.
In this paper there is a review with some examples for insects, plants and animals using images in field guides and identification keys: review and recommendations with App systems.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3077818/
MEDL iPhone apps: TreeID, FishID. MEDL Mobile, Inc.; 2010. MEDL Mobile Ihttp://www.medlmobile.com/apps/iphone?app_q=id. 26 February 2011
I am looking into the options now to develop a similar system for (macro) moth species.
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