I thought I understood how to annotate plant phenological characteristics but apparently not. Rather than point to a specific example, I’ll concoct the simplest example I can think of. Suppose we have an observation with two photos. Assume all plants in both photos are the same species. In photo #1,…

If it’s 2 individuals, I think you should ask the observer which the observation is for (or decide on one with the community, as often happens when people are unresponsive…). Each observation is designed for 1 individual at a time, even though this often isn’t strictly adhered to. It’s usually not…

I thought you could add multiple annotations.

[image] aisti: If it’s 1 individual with both phenologies, …I should wait for an expert to answer :) [image] trscavo: Suppose we have an observation with two photos. Assume all plants in both photos are the same species. In photo #1, there are flowering plants only, while in photo #2, the…

What if it is flowering, but last year’s fruit is still hanging on.

Plants allow multiple annotation, so annotate everything you see.

according to : https://www.usanpn.org/files/shared/files/Haggerty&Mazer_ThePhenologyHandbook_v3Aug2009.pdf 42 Table 3: Herbaceous plants Open flowers In at least one location on the plant, an open fresh flower is visible. Flowers are considered “open” when the reproductive parts are visible betwe…

My post is valid for plants; other organisms I am less familiar with. Typically, the phenological stage is assessed for the whole plant, not parts of it. So if you look at a tree where not all the flower buds open exactly at the same time, you would assess what percentage is opened. On a time serie …

I think if you can see buds, flowers or fruit in any picture in your observation, you can add the annotation. And there aren’t that many people who add the annotations, so I appreciate those who do. I personally use the filter when I’m looking observations to compare to what I suspect my own observ…

I often mark the observation as flowering and budding, sometimes flowering and fruiting, sometimes all three. I just mark what I see, whatever it is. I’m glad we don’t have to choose between these options. Technically, each observation is supposed to be just one individual plant (which might be i…

Thanks everyone. After reviewing your answers, I think I’ve been doing it wrong. I’ve been pretty strict (perhaps overly strict) about applying the “one plant per observation” rule-of-thumb. If it’s obvious there are multiple plants depicted in multiple photos, I either ask for a change or ignore th…

Annotating observations with multiple photos

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trscavo April 29, 2020, 3:22pm 14

Works for me. Network issues?

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Annotating observations with multiple photos

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