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cfastie "I think if you capture camera raw you have a single number (DN) for each pixel and you know what kind of Bayer filter that pixel was under. The DN ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "In Spectral Workbench the Y-axis on the spectrogram is "Intensity (%)." If you took the sum of all three channels and plotted them on the same grap..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Hi Rayishido, They are beautiful mosaics. I didn't have any problem using these images in Fiji. But the Photo Monitoring plugin does not do a very..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "There is a discussion of common materials with spectral data in the comments here: https://publiclab.org/notes/LaPa/03-31-2016/raspberry-noir-cam-..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "I don't think I ever posted a tube fluorescent spectrum. But that's a good idea because those Wikipedia spectra of tube lamps don't all have the se..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Open an image in Fiji and hover the cursor over it. At the bottom of the Fiji window it will say "value=" followed by three numbers which are the R..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "You need a program like Fiji to see the RGB values. The latest photo has more yellow orange color in the foliage so it should do a good job discrim..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "There is a discussion of controlling the white balance on the Raspberry Pi camera here: https://publiclab.org/notes/LaPa/12-03-2015/how-do-i-set-a-..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "It would be helpful to know how you made those photos (camera, filters, white balance). I am guessing they were made with an RPi NoIR camera with a..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "That might be normal behavior for the spectrometer. The slit allows only a narrow beam of light to hit the diffraction grating. If the beam does no..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "All fluorescent lamps produce visible light when UV light from excited mercury gas excites phosphors coating the inside of the lamp. Most compact f..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "That's going to be an awesome prairie. I hope you can keep up with the kudzu. Are you going to repair the pole? Some standard fiberglass fabric soa..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "You betcha there's research about how mammal grazing and browsing impact carbon and nutrient cycles. A couple of my buddies from graduate school de..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "A DIY spectrometer can be used to characterize the spectral reflectivity of a target if two things are true: The spectrometer must be sensitive i..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "@stoft’s concerns about the effectiveness of a crowd-based and rule-based ranking system are probably justified because the active publiclab commun..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "I had not considered legacy research notes, but I have a different view of them. Implementing some form of review has two main consequences: it sep..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "That's very clever that users with good reputations can counteract unscrupulous newbies gaming the system for their buds. It would be cool if users..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Here is a proposal which might reconcile a few of the ideas presented here including: @stoft’s great idea of using a checklist to determine if a ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Mathew, I haven't seen any spectral data for Rosco paints. Is there any reason to think that they would be better than other paints for NDVI calibr..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "This suggests that UK balloons, like UK kites, must be kept under 60 m agl without special permission. There are similar restrictions in the US but..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "It would be great to have a few paints that: had reflectance spectra for 400 nm to 1000 nm, were exterior paint, were matte finish paint, were av..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Another rather important topic is the strict altitude limitations for kites and balloons in the UK. Kites are not allowed to be more than 60m above..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "I assume the kite line sold at the KAPshop is good braided polyester. Dacron is DuPont's brand of polyester, so it does not have to be Dacron. The ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "I don't know of any commercially available inexpensive calibration targets. A good calibration target will have the same reflectance for all wavele..." | Read more » over 8 years ago