Field Book - Phenotypic Data Collection App
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- view network connections
- pair with Bluetooth devices
- access Bluetooth settings
- change network connectivity
- connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
- full network access
- reorder running apps
- draw over other apps
- control vibration
- prevent device from sleeping
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Field Book is a simple app for taking phenotypic notes. Collecting data in the field has traditionally been a laborious process requiring writing notes by hand followed by transcription. Field Book was created to replace paper field books and to enable increased collection speed with greater data integrity.
Field Book uses custom layouts for different types of data to that allow rapid data collection. Traits being collected are defined by the user and can be exported and transferred between devices. Sample files are provided with the installation.
Field Book is part of the broader PhenoApps initiative, an effort to modernize plant breeding and genetics data collection and organization via by developing new strategies and tools for data capture.
Development of Field Book has been supported by the Collaborative Crop Research Program of The McKnight Foundation (http://ccrp.org/) and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. (1543958). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
A journal article describing Field Book was published in 2014 in Crop Science ( http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2013.08.0579 ).
User reviews
- Well designed and functional app
- Helpful for data collection in agriculture and phenotyping
- Ad-free experience
- Good customer support from the developer, Trevor Rife
- Convenient and easy to use
- Crashes frequently, especially after updates
- New updates are slower or less efficient compared to older versions
- Issues with importing data files, including errors about duplicates
- New tutorial format is distracting
- Lacks visualization of past data while collecting new data
- Frequent crashes after updates
- Slow performance after updates
- Helpful for agricultural data collection
- Good support from the developer
- Ad-free
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