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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
cschweik "Hi Chris. Thanks for your continued interest in our project. We've got some ideas on trying to use photoshop to extract out water chestnut. We'll s..." | 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
rhodesg3 "Do you mean that the probe you used for testing your device (borrowed from UMass CEE dept.) was the Accumet AP85 or do you mean that you bought the..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
markwh "The probe we're using is an accumet AP85 from Fisher Scientific. We're assuming this is working perfectly--admittedly it too should be calibrated. ..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
rhodesg3 "The PhotosynQ team is going through a similar process trying to find (or mostly likely just design our own) a conductivity meter to use with our Mu..." | 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
aferland "Chris we figured out why it wasn't taking pictures but then when we were out trying to fly balloon we thought going into canoe would be a good idea..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
warren "Pasting in comments from the plots-waterquality list -- There's arsenic in some Somerville soil -- especially at the Kiley Barrel site right near ..." | 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
liz "Fantastic documentation! Love the project goals. Keep us posted! " | Read more » about 10 years ago
mathew "nice bacronym! " | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Update: Amherst College has posted a follow-up on their Facebook page, here: https://www.facebook.com/amherstcollege/posts/690441407761 " | Read more » almost 11 years ago
ttaylor "I just posted a research note with my little background study of the usefulness of color for Trapa classification; Here's the link. " | Read more » over 11 years ago
cfastie "Tom, Both WarnerLkVis7075.JPG and WarnerLkVis7136.JPG are there (case sensitive). Their NIR matches (2214 and 2275) are there too. The NIR images..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
ttaylor "Chris, some questions for you: 1) Is there a full resolution version of WarnerLkVis7075.jpg and WarnerLkVis7136.jpg somewhere for me to download? ..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
cfastie "philippg, Ned Horning has been working on these images, and has tried some segmentation approaches, but maybe nothing fractal or with spectral cohe..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
cfastie "Hi Cynthia, We got several GPS locations from patches of water chestnut, but I have not yet matched up the field descriptions with the GPS coordina..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
cboettner "This looks very encouraging as a possible tool for those of us trying to locate and control water chestnut. Since I haven't been involved since th..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
philippg "pretty nice results! it seems like the structural information is more telling than the spectral. did you try to calculate e.g. spatially resolved f..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
nedhorning "This isn't actually a classification. I was generating different layers from the 4-band (red, green, blue, near-IR) images collected a few weeks ag..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
cfastie "I think the only areas in the image with waterchestnut present are within the white circles. Other areas that are dark in the classification result..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
jholmes5 "I want to know more! It seems like there are areas around the canoe which have similar appearance in the gray scale are these water chestnut areas ..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
cfastie "Yes, I noticed that in your note you mentioned that tallow turns color in the fall and nothing else does. So you won't even need IR to distinguish ..." | Read more » over 11 years ago