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Germinate Scan

Garden Tiger Moth photographed by Gabor PozsgaiThis website has been mothballed.

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Further information

Germinate Scan is designed to make scanning and storing barcodes easy! Just connect the external barcode scanner to your Android device and start scanning or use your device’s inbuilt camera. Germinate Scan will scan barcodes as a key-value pair, i.e. the first code represents the key while the second code is the value. All scanned pairs are tagged with the time and date of the scan event as well as the geographic location of the device if GPS is enabled. As long as the attached barcode scanner is connected as an input device, Germinate Scan can handle all types of bar codes the scanner is able to read. All scanned bar codes are saved in an internal database to make sure that you can continue exactly where you left off. The database can be exported to a text file at any time.

Type of Study

Field trials data collection.

Objective of the study

Create a mobile tool for the collection of field trials data.

Location

This project is hosted at the James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie, Scotland.

Data used

User defined data depending on species and data type.