Smartphone App Empowering Communities to Participate in Research and Environmental Monitoring

Smartphone App Empowering Communities to Participate in Research and Environmental Monitoring
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Finnish researchers have developed a smartphone app that can generate 15 million bird detections by using machine-learning to classify recordings This “digital twin” approach not only produces accurate biodiversity predictions, it opens the field to everyday citizens to contribute to conservation science.

Posted: March 20, 2026