There Is An App For That

Tony Pernas and Dennis Giardina

• Cases (water, drop, dust)

• Lanyards

• Lenses, Microphones

Accessories

Applications

• Safety• Environmental Data• Field Guides• Mapping, GIS and GPS• Data Collection/Entry• Utilities• Citizen Science• Social Media

Safety

SOS

• Automatically sends an emergency message, the user’s location, device battery level, and a recorded audio clip of the situation to chosen contact with just a shake of the device.

• Preprogrammed contacts (SMS Alert)• GPS location• Audio recording (1 min)

Free

ITriage• Health answers!

• Information on symptoms, medications, diseases, and medical locations instantly .

Created by two ER doctors, iTriage gives you quick access to a huge healthcare & medical database in your pocket. The medical content is reviewed by Harvard Medical School. Over 12 million people have downloaded the iTriage app that has 4.5 star rating from over 100K reviews.

Free

Safety Meeting• Record and track OSHA required safety

meetings, accidents, incidents, near-misses, and employee attendance. (phone, tablet, and computer.)

• Document Incident, Accidents, and Near-Misses• Meets OSHA’s Required Meeting Laws• 950+ Pre-Written Safety Toolbox Topics• Print PDF Meeting/Incident/Near-Miss Reports• Date Stamps each Safety Meeting• Photos of Attendance

Free

OSHA

• OSHA regulations for General Industry and Business.

• Cover most work places, including manufacturing, service industries, warehouses and distribution centers, and the medical / dental fields.

Free

Environmental

Tides Near Me • Nearby tide stations and tidal conditions (Last,

current and next)

• Sun, Moon and Current

• Fully automated tide tables, charts, and predictions.

Free

Weather Underground Powered by 180,000+ personal weather stations, this app provides hyper-local forecasts and current conditions, interactive radar, and customizable alerts.

Free

My Radar Fast, easy-to-use, weather application that displays animated weather radars around your current location.

High Definition Doppler radar data is processed from raw NOAA weather radar data

Free

Wind Finder Wind, waves and weather for more than 40000 locations worldwide. Any time, any where! Real time observations, accurate forecasts.

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Free

Mapping, GIS and GPS

Trimble

• Map types: streets, hybrid, aerial, topo and terrain.• Digital Compass: Navigate with a digital compass. • Waypoints• Tracks• Navigation

Free

Avenza PDF Maps

• Reads geospatial PDF, GeoTIFF, and GeoPDF® mapsSaved maps can be used without the need for a live network connection (offline).

• Quickly view, zoom and pan maps using gestures (pinch, drag and flick, double tap)

• Plot placemarks, change pin colors, position and label names, enter attribute data and notes

• Track real-time movement with GPS

Free

Google Earth

Layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more..

Free

Arc Collector

Features:

- Collect and update data using the map or GPS (even in the background)- Fill out easy-to-use map-driven forms- Attach photos and videos to your features- Download maps to your device and work offline- Search for places and features in your map- Track and report areas you've visited

Need Account ($$)

Wolf GIS• Capture timestamped notes and images to specific geo-locations on your maps• Draw points, lines, and polygons • Measure distance, area, and perimeter in selectable units of measure• Import all common GIS file types with ease Map types: streets, hybrid, aerial, topo and terrain.

Free and Paid Versions

GPS & Map Toolbox

• Find GPS coordinates• Distance and bearing• Convert between Coordinate systems

$2.99

Area –Calculate My Area

• Measure areas on map.

Usage: Press "Pin" button to drop the pin. Drop the first one on the center of the area. Then drop the others around in clockwise.

After 3 or more pin appear, area inside those pins will be calculated.

Free

Data Collection/Entry

Field Journal

• Manage notes while in the field. • Notes are automatically geo-located and timestamped.• No network is needed to take notes.• Notes can be easily exported to the cloud and hence

synchronized to your work machine or tablet. Notes can be exported in Plain Text, HTML or CSV format.

$4.99

Utilities

Theodilite

Theodolite is a multi-function augmented reality app that combines a compass, GPS, map, photo/movie camera, rangefinder, and two-axis inclinometer into one indispensable app. Theodolite overlays real time information about position, altitude, bearing, range, and inclination on the iPhone’s live camera image, like an electronic viewfinder.

$5.99

Canapeo

• Canopeo is a rapid and accurate green canopy cover measurement tool.

Use this app to quantify the percent canopy cover of live green vegetation for any agricultural crop, turf, or grassland based on downward-facing photos taken with your mobile device.

Replace the traditional visual scoring or the sometimes expensive desktop programs with this powerful and portable quantitative

Free

DropBox• Create and edit Microsoft Office files from your iPhone or iPad• Back up photos and videos automatically if you choose• Share links to your largest files without using email attachments• Access your files offline

Free (limited storage)

CanopyApp• Using your phone's gyroscope, each picture taken will be

level with the ground and ensure accurate readings. • You select the leaf colors with simple touches, so canopy

data can be taken in any climate, any season!

Free

Tank Mix

• Calculate the amount of product you will need to treat a specific field area, the amount of product you need to apply to a specific tank size, the amount of water you'll need to treat a specific field area or the amount of product you need to get the desired Volume to Volume ratio

Free

Convert

• Converts quickly from one unit of measure to another.

Free

Uniform DistributionRandom Number Generator

Generate random numbers by inputting minimum and maximum numbers.

Free

Field Guides

Sibley Ebird• All of the content of the printed book is carried

over to the electronic edition:• Over 6600 images of 810 species• Every species illustrated (flight, perched etc• Audio recordings of over 2300 different calls and

songs.• Filter species to show only the birds found in a

single state or province, or only the most commonly-seen species

• Filter species by color, shape, size, and habits• Personal sightings log

Ebird Mobile

Record the birds you see in the field, and seamlessly link these observations with eBird--a global online database of bird records used by hundreds of thousands of birders around the world.

IBiocontrol(University of Georgia/Bugwood)

Reference and Reporting for Invasive Plants and their biological control agents. This free application uses EDDMapS (www.eddmaps.org) to help county, state and federal agencies track releases and occurrences of biological control agents of noxious weeds.

Free

Audubon Reptile and Amphibian GuideThis app contains 437 species with in-depth descriptions, thousands of professional photographs, range maps, advanced search capability, and much more!

Features: ◆ Professional color photographs detailing every species with extraordinary clarity. ◆ Fifty-nine Frog and Toad sounds ◆ In-depth descriptions of every species, with authoritative information on range, habitat, breeding and much more.

$4.99

Leaf Snap

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves

Free

Plant-O-Matic

The BIEN Plant-O-Matic generates a list of plant species at 100 sq. km resolution for any location in the Americas. Pictures and information help you identify and learn about each species.

Details: The BIEN Plant-O-Matic application generates a list of species in the user’s location at 100 sq. km resolution for any location in North and South America based on 3,585,449 standardized plant observations and geographic range models. The BIEN data represents a comprehensive effort to merge data from the world’s herbaria and ecological studies. Some geographic areas are better represented than others.

Free

Ipest 1/2/3

iPest1 contains four sections covering pest cockroaches, filth breeding flies, occasional invaders, and urban pest and wildlife droppings. iPest2 contains four sections covering pest ants, stored food beetles, common termites structures and wood destroying insects. iPest3 covers biting, stinging, and bloodsucking arthropods.

A searchable menu groups pests by type and allows you to quickly find your pest of interest.

Free

Citizen Science

Squeal on Pigs(University of Georgia/Bugwood)

• Inform landowners of the threat of feral pigs to our natural resources, particularly waterways,

• Provide landowners with the information they need to effectively and quickly report suspected sightings of feral pigs,

• Provide states with tools to work with private landowners to eradicate known populations of feral pigs.

Free

My Noah

• Project Noah/ My Noah lets people upload photos of plants and wildlife around them, creating a map of the natural world and contributing to scientific research in the process. Users can contribute photos and locations of wildlife and if users don’t know what plant or animal they’ve photographed, they can ask the Project Noah community to help them. Users also can see a map of other wildlife that has been spotted near them.

Free

IveGot1(University of Georgia/Bugwood)

Identify and Report Invasive plants and Animals in Florida

Integrated invasive species reporting and outreach campaign.

• Website: ivegot1.org• Hotline: 1-888-IVEGOT1

• Image capture/submittal• Online and offline reporting• Images/Info on non-native invasive animals and

plants.• Real-time point distribution maps centered on

your current location.

Free

What’s Invasive!(University of Georgia/Bugwood)

Learn about and report invasive species in parks.

• Displays local lists of top invasive plants and/or animals (with images and short descriptions)

• Report invasive species with locations/images.

Free

INaturalist(California Academy of Sciences)

Upload science observations of plants and animals to iNaturalist.org, an online community for naturalists. You can record observations with photos and GPS locations* view nearby photos on a map* keep track of updates from people you follow on iNaturalist.org

Free

Map of Life

Map of Life builds on a global scientific effort to help you discover, identify and record species worldwide.

Free

Social Media

Facebook

Groups: Plant Identification, Botany etc.

Acknowledgements

• Cheryl McCormick

• Sarah Funck

• Tessie Offner

• Ellen Allen

• Staurt Krantz

• Jim Cuda

• Jon MortonHillary Cooley

• Linda King

• Greg Jubinsky

• Kris Campbell

• William Snyder