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cfastie "I proclaim this study to be highly replicable, and encourage others to reproduce Yagiz's results. Not that we should have any doubts about Yagiz's ..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "The forecast 5-20 km/hour wind is perfect for kite photography. From the looks of the flag and the foam streaks on the water in one of your photos,..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "Do you have a link to your kite? There are apparently lots of Prism Stowaway kites. " | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "Melissa, Those photos are great. Good color and perfect exposure. The skewing adds much excitement, and adds a lot to my knowledge of phone camera..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "I haven't tried this, but a lot of work has been done on it by two Google Summer of Code students. http://publiclab.org/notes/mercyorangi/08-16-201..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "Theatrical gels are a good substitute for more precise filters. Rosco #19 "Fire" behaves much like Wratten 25A and costs $7.00 for a huge (20x24") ..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
cfastie "Ned - The white balance preset used for those photos was "Sunny." Jeff Taylor at Event38 recommends either Cloudy or AWB, so it is apparently not t..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Thanks Jeff. I guess a handy feature of using a blue filter like this is that the NIR data is captured in the red channel. So with the right white ..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "@camilochiang, Yes, you are correct that with a blue Rosco filter, the photo captured by the converted camera is (more or less) NGB. I think the di..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Here is a text file with the RGB values for each of the 256 levels of the look up table. NDVI_VGYRM.txt " | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Pat, It sounds like you are not using a very handy program to select the configuration settings for the Mobius. There is a good one for Windows (mS..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Yikes. I didn't know the stakes were so high. Whew. " | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Mat, That's a pretty nice spectrum. Are you going to try adjusting the grating angle by 5° or so in either direction? I'm not sure it would make an..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Lifting two cameras with a Public Lab balloon requires that you fill the balloon to just about its capacity. I think it should be 5.5 feet in diame..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Ally and @cschweik, That's great new stuff on the wiki page. Nice photos of water chestnut. Were you able to get the RGB camera working? I have a..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Yikes, that's not good. Let me know if you need help getting a replacement camera. There are several on ebay now and I think I have another one here. " | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Ally, It is the kite that should be flying at least 100 feet high before you attach the camera rig to the line. The camera can be attached to the l..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Those are nice Mobius photos. It should be possible to correct for the wide angle distortion, but you can't correct for the fact that such a wide a..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Yikes, two Powershots got wet? And survived? Did you bake them in a warm oven when you got home? Powershots don't like water. I have opened an ebay..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Can't wait to see the flight photos. That's a nice NDVI image. Were you holding the dual-camera rig on it's side and letting the external timer sho..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "The ones I linked to have the hole in one end that the other end can pass through. " | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "It looks like McMaster sells them for $5-6 per pack of ten. Here are 50 ties for $6: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F5K82A/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "Eelgrass beds in New England have been traditionally mapped using normal color aerial photographs. Apparently the tricks of the trade are to have m..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
cfastie "There are a few reasons that the NDVI results from that Infragram photo do a poor job of differentiating plants from nonplants. The primary reason ..." | Read more » about 10 years ago