_Image above by @liz_ Our work in Somerville is developing in partnership with [Parts and Crafts](http://partsandcrafts.org). Somerville is also home to [Sprout](http://thesprouts.org) and the Boston-area Dorkbot chapter. ##Projects## In Somerville, we've been interested in * measuring vegetation health using [near-infrared cameras](/tool/near-infrared-camera) * detecting heat leaks with cheap, DIY [thermal photography](/tool/thermal-photography), allowing for better winterization and heating bill savings * investigating waste flows, such as where our trash goes -- with Pablo Rey from [Basurama.org](http://basurama.org) * check out this map of a [landfill in Saugus, MA](https://mapknitter.org/map/view/saugus-incinerator-landfill) which we made in late 2011 * improving the [DIY spectrometer](/tool/spectrometer) for investigating oil and tar contamination (mainly for use at the [Gowanus Canal](/place/new-york-city) and along the [Gulf Coast](/place/gulf-coast) *Above: a kite map of the Saugus incinerator ash landfill, where most of the Boston area's trash ends up.* We occasionally have meetups at the Pirateship, so get in touch [on the mailing list](/wiki/mailing-lists) if you're interested in participating in or organizing a local meetup. At Parts & Crafts, we've been doing occasional workshops building [spectrometers](/tool/spectrometer), [infrared cameras](/tool/near-infrared-camera), such as the one used to take this photograph: ###Tool sharing Folks on the local **plots-boston** discussion list often lend and borrow Public Lab kits and other resources. To request a kit, or help with a kit from other local members, please email the list -- you can sign up in the upper left. To offer resources borrowing, please add your name and the available tool below: * DIY Spectrometer: [warren](/profile/warren), [kgradow1](/profile/kgradow1) * Kites (9-foot & 7-foot): [warren](/profile/warren), [kgradow1](/profile/kgradow1) * Balloon Mapping kits: [warren](/profile/warren) * Space for events: [kgradow1](/profile/kgradow1) * [Infragram](/wiki/infragram) cameras: [warren](/profile/warren) Other things are often available, so please ask on the list if you're wondering! **** ##Pollution reports Nearby pollution issues (by [SkyTruth Alerts](http://alerts.skytruth.org/)): ...
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ygzstc | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
Hynae | "I'll be there! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
rjstatic | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
Shannon | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
Hudonnoodles | "Jeff -- Not yet, but I'm planning to! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Jen - have you or anyone else applied for Rackspace funds for this? " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
Hudonnoodles | "Yay! Awesome. Me too. :D " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
warren | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
stevie | "Would love to include this map in a presentation I'm doing on aerial mapping if you don't mind!?do you have the list of people who helped map? Woul..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
donblair | "Thanks, Katie and Will -- this was a great event! Lots of really cool ideas came up about the future of P&C ... really excited to participate ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
liz | "Jeff Warren, Catherine D'Ignazio, and Don Blair tabled and demoed at this event. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
liz | "wiki page for event updates! http://publiclab.org/wiki/barnraising-northeast-2014 " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Wow, the rough stitched map looks great! It's not rough at all... can you post the link to the MapKnitter page? It displays the images you used for..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Read more here, too, about the event! http://publiclab.org/wiki/boston-toolshed-raising-2014 " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
pablo | "Great Jeff, I had missed this post. Any conclussions to extract from the photos about the landfill? Besides, wrong first link! " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
nedhorning | "I have a feeling it is a white balance problem. The blue channel seems to be off. I would expect vegetation to be much darker in the blue channel. ..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
cfastie | "Can I do a better post-white-balancing to recover useful data? If you adjust the white balance on the infrablue photo, or make any other changes t..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
cfastie | "The Rosco 2008 should be one of the best filters for making NDVI because it blocks all the red light better than others. It has only 40% of the ove..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
cfastie | "Jeff, do you have an image of the lut you used? You can open a lut in Fiji by file/open. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
warren | "Thanks from the "sensei" :-) As i mentioned in my post, i just redrew the diagram (with some minor changes) from one posted by "ad": http://public..." | Read more » | over 12 years ago |