With our smartphone app Naturblick, we offer you a digital approach to experience nature in the city. With different functions, plants and animals can be identified and understood in the context of the city without much prior knowledge. With the automatic image and sound recognition tool, you can recognise the different species in your everyday life. The variety of species can be explored with identification tools for trees, birds, herbs and wildflowers, amphibians, mammals, butterflies, reptiles, bees and wasps and more.
Take photos of plants and identify them with our automatic image recognition tool. Record bird calls and identify which bird is singing with automatic sound recognition tool.
Download the app for free from Google Play ot the App Store.
Take part
We are continuously developing the Naturblick smartphone app and our platform in terms of content and technology. In doing so we are guided by your feedback. We thank all who point out errors and/or make suggestions for improvement. Send us an email at naturblick[at]mfn.berlin.
About Naturblick
In an interdisciplinary team we research and develop digital tools to experience urban nature. For example, we are testing the use of pattern recognition in species identification. With our smartphone app Naturblick we support the direct experience of nature in the city. With a variety of functions you can explore nature in the city, identify animals and plants and save your observations. The Naturblick-Website will allow you to read all art portraits and use our open content even without a smartphone. In the planned login area you will be able to manage and sort your observations from the app according to your wishes and share them with Citizen Science projects. We are continuously working on the improvement and expansion of the app and platform. Our work lives from the participation and feedback of our users.
Overview data collection
All data is collected for exclusively scientific purposes. As soon as the data is no longer required, it is deleted. The data that is collected and the extent to which it is collected may also be determined by technical requirements. When using this app, the following data is collected and stored anonymously in accordance with the GDPR
- Sound and image recordings
- Observation metadata (species name, geocoordinates, time, number, notes)
- Crash reports (stack traces, type of crash, trends and version of the cell phone and software)
- Device ID and metadata of the determination results (coordinates, time, determination history)
- anonymous usage data (information about your interactions with the app)
- Event data (details of specific user actions such as clicking on buttons)
- Device data (details about your device, including device type, operating system and screen resolution)
Further information on data protection can be found in the General Privacy Notice.