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cfastie "(I'm reposting this as an "Answer" because a bug is preventing "Comments" from displaying sometimes.) Hi Stevie, @xose is right about snow and ic..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Hi Stevie, @xose is right about snow and ice making exposure tricky. The glare from an ice surface can also be a problem with exposure, but that w..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Hi Stevie, The plants you choose probably won't make much difference in water storage during storms because they can't absorb water fast enough. T..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Calibration probably requires that your photo includes a target of known spectral reflectivity in the bands that will be used to compute NDVI. More..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Which software are you referring too? " | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Jurist, I tried to calibrate your spectrum but Spectral Workbench would not complete the task. I don't know why it did not work. The intensity sc..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Do you have some reason to think that the spectral output of the lamp should be different? Maybe the result you got is a good representation of wha..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "There is one more issue to be aware of. In addition to automatic exposure, most simple cameras have automatic white balance. Automatic white balanc..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Wow, the Phillips Hue is a 15 dollar LED light bulb with a wifi module. It requires a proprietary wifi router (~$40). The free app can control up t..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Video editing programs usually have some way of converting photos into the frames of a video. In Adobe Premiere Elements if you click Add_Media/Fi..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "I don't know whether a macro in Spectral Workbench could capture images at some interval from a continuous video stream from a webcam (spectrometer..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Many plant species have leaves with broadly similar spectral reflection properties. So depending on the species it might be a challenge to distingu..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Depending on your goal, a spectrometer might not be needed to locate dandelion flowers. They are dramatically distinct from green leaves in the vis..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "It's very easy to convert a photo from a red-filtered Mobius (or other) camera to color NDVI using the Photo Monitoring plugin for Fiji: https://pu..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "I'm using formula ndvi= Nir-Vis/Nir+Vis The formula for NDVI is NDVI=(Nir-Vis)/(Nir+Vis) Vis= Blue channel Nir= red channel With a red filter,..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Hi Mario, White balance could be a problem. All of those preset white balance settings and the results from auto white balance will be very differe..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "If you collect all the water expelled while a laundry machine washes a load of clothes, all of the synthetic material will be in the water. If you ..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Mario, After the internal filter has been removed, a new filter can be used either inside the camera or in front of the lens. It's hard to keep the..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "I need some help with your questions. What is the name of the product you bought from Public Lab? Do you want to modify the camera on your DJI Pha..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Hi Robert, In this note and comments we were lamenting the lack of replicate spectra of CFL lamps to confirm the information at the Wikipedia page...." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "I have one of the first Mobius cameras that Public Lab bought to test. It has the standard lens. I removed the IR cut filter (note) and then after ..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Abdul, It is possible that the new lens has different coatings which alter the color balance (red:NIR). This might require an adjustment to the cus..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "Thanks Pat, I recall that you might have tried Meshlab with this type of data. Were you able to do some quantitative analysis (e.g., volume) with M..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
cfastie "The lamp post, the wall, and parts of the tree trunk are all very dark. It is a common artifact that NDVI computed for dark areas of photos is not ..." | Read more » over 7 years ago