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cfastie "That looks like a real find. I suspect some experimentation will be required to get photos of the spectra. The spectral image is probably not..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "First, the maths. 8 foot diameter balloon weighs 600 grams, so when inflated each cm² weighs 0.00321 grams 5.5 foot diameter balloon weighs 350 gra..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "This all looks like a lot of fun. I'm sure the bumblebees are very excited as well. The balloon looks great. It looks like a larger version of the..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "The store.publiclab.org site says: "We also sell a custom version of this camera which has been factory-modified to replace its infrared-blocking f..." | over 8 years ago
cfastie "Sorry I missed some questions. Calibration targets work outside or in a greenhouse. Calibration targets are hard to find and very expensive. But ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "If your spectrometer uses a webcam, you can use a webcam program that does interval shooting or timelapse. I tried a couple of these a few years ag..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "The Photo Monitoring plugin allows any band (R,G,B) to be used as the visible band (VIS). With the Mapir camera, all three bands from the RED camer..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "There are lots of examples of DIY spectrometers based on linear CCD detectors which are just single rows of pixels with no color filters over them...." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "The daffodil spectra are great lessons. It's very unusual to see much yellow in the photos of diffraction patterns from Public Lab spectrometers. T..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Hi viechdokter, These are great observations. They reveal important features of spectra created using consumer cameras as the detector. It's real..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "NDVI is based solely on color (near infrared is one of the colors). If a camera records different colors for two leaves, the NDVI computed for tho..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "I like #4 too. I don't have a good answer for the type of glue. Something thick and quick drying. It does not have to be sticky, it just has to for..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "The new filter can be put several different places: stick it on the front of the lens. Build a frame to hold it in front of the lens: https://pub..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Those photos of the cool old ruins work fine in Fiji, and the mosaic images from ICE also work in Fiji. The Photo Monitoring plugins stopped worki..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "We need a lot more stories like this of KAP sessions gone awry; there is a lot more to learn here than when everything goes well. But maybe most of..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Are those photos mosaics of more than one photo? What program did you use to combine the photos? That program might not be making jpegs that Fiji l..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Wow, this is a gorgeous piece of equipment. It seems to represent a huge effort in design and construction. I was pleased to learn that continuous..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Hi LaPa, Your time-lapse videos are impressive. These are excellent teaching videos. You can clearly see that the NDVI values for the foliage of t..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "When you get to the step here: Note that it is asking for a "Photo Pair File." This is made with the plugin called "Create dual image list." It..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "It seems that the Mobius timelapse features could be all you need to capture turbidity events. Depending on the stream or river, turbidity events c..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "That could very useful. I wonder how long the camera could operate remotely. Will the camera gobble up a lot of power? Does the camera just power..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "This is great. Jeff is right that you need a post processing routine to learn if you captured anything interesting. In fact did you look closely at..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "berkelha, Assuming your camera has a red filter, instead of RGB it will have RGN. The green channel will be mostly NIR, so it's really RNN, but th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "cjtiaan, Were you able to download the raw data from SpectralWorkbench? There are links for that on each spectrum page. Chris " | Read more » over 8 years ago