International Business Machines Corporation
Autodidactic phenological data collection and verification

Abstract:

A method, computer system, and computer program product for expanding phenological data resources by collecting phenological data from social media sites are provided. The embodiment may include determining one or more species of plants or animals from a plurality of data shared on social media sites. The embodiment may also include extracting phenological information related to the determined plants or animals. The embodiment may further include validating the phenological information against known or already validated information received from crowd source phenological information or a plurality of ecological and biological databases. The embodiment may further include cataloging the validated and filtered phenological information according to a list selected from a group consisting of species, locations, biological or ecological characteristics. The embodiment may also include generating reports related to the cataloged phenological information utilizing plant image analysis, object identification analysis or user satisfaction analysis.