Heard of those smart TV cameras in cities which scan your face walking down the street, turn that image over to a computer, look up your criminal record, and as necessary notify the policeman waiting nearby in his car? The do exist in the UK and now in the US.
Could this be done for plants? Not necessarily a case of Toxicodendron radicans wanted for blisterous trifoliate assault (BTA) but perhaps something like basic species identification. Take a typical leaf, scan it into your laptop's portable flatbed scanner, run a morphometric program, and viola! 98.6% you have Plantus vulgaris with a 12.7% you have Plantus pseudo-vulgaris.
Such scenarios are already being tested and perfected in the morphometric community. Now there's a book for those of you inclined to this sort of computer-aided plant analysis with a healthy dose of math....
http://www.amazon.com/dp/084938205X?tag=morphometrics-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=084938205X&adid=18WN2V0G0YGQC8MEJFEF&
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