*Lead photo: Early experiments in Vermont with the Public Lab's infrared camera tool.* **Vermont is part of the [Northeast region](http://publiclab.org/wiki/northeast).** Public Lab organizers Chris Fastie and Ned Horning are involved in multispectral imaging hardware, multispectral image processing, control and monitoring of airborne cameras, agricultural and vegetation mapping and imaging, and spectroscopy. . . PLOTS and TAC join forces in Vermont Public Laboratory and the Toxics Action Center are collaborating on a project to apply Public Lab tools to several Vermont projects being investigated by TAC. Details of these projects are outlined here. . Recent Events . . LEAFFEST 2014 September 12-14, 2014 [Vermont Fall meetup](http://publiclab.org/tag/leaffest2014) . SNOWFEST 3D 2014 February 22&23, 2014 [Vermont winter meetup](http://publiclab.org/tag/snowfest) . Vermont Environmental Summit November 9, 2013 Chris Fastie led a workshop introducing Public Lab tools. . LEAFFEST 2013 September 7-8, 2013 [Learning Earth Appropriate Fact-Finding Environmental Science Tools](http://publiclab.org/tag/leaffest2013) . iFARM (NH) May 18, 2013 [Aerial and multispectral imaging and mapping for agricultural applications](http://publiclab.org/tag/ifarm) . Middlebury Meetup April 30, 2013 [An informal meeting to fly a camera over the Middlebury College Organic Farm](http://publiclab.org/notes/cfastie/05-02-2013/middlebury-meetup) . Montpelier Kite Mapping Workshop April 6, 2013 Chris Fastie led a workshop on aerial mapping with Public Lab tools. . Vermont Environmental Summit November 18, 2012 Chris Fastie led a workshop on aerial mapping with Public Lab tools. . LEAFFEST Low Elevation Aerial Flights For Earth Sensing Technology September 21-23, 2012 Here are some Research Notes on the activities at LEAFFEST 2012....
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| cfastie | "Thanks Liz, I missed that. LEAFFEST is on the weekend of the the 13th and 14th of September. If anyone shows up at my house on the 20th I will send..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| liz | "Chris, i saw in the newsletter that LEAFEST was listed for September 20-21...is this true? I hope not! I hope it's still September 13-14 as listed ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "hmmm, having trouble making snapshots, but i finally got this to work! these files are so huge.. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Pat, The Wratten 87 passes only NIR; it's great for the NIR camera in a dual camera rig. The Wratten 25 is the best filter I have used for a sin..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, Nice rig. Great value. I like the results. Has there been discussion of the Wratten 87 polyester filter vs Wratten 25? " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Scott, A Gigapan account is free, although you can pay for commercial features. The minimum limit on all gigapan uploads is 50 megapixels (not m..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "chris, how does one create the embedded display you've made in Gigapan. i love the way you can display your photos. I've tried signing up for gig..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "Interesting results! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "Thank you for the very nice write-up. FWIW, it might be that you can get light in a narrower bandwidth from a point source than from an LED: http..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| Philgib | "Excellent ! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I'm not sure what the problem is with that Picavet model. It was designed in Sketchup, and it is scaled correctly in Sketchup, so it is 22 cm long...." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | "I've tried printing this rig a few times now and every time, now matter how I set it up first, it always comes out at about a quarter inch? I've t..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Excellent results. The package is a great value.Thanks! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Great stuff! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Great value. Very nice results. Seems retro (perhaps a barnstar is in order). Very nice, rich feature set, now repurposed, "recontextualized," int..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Those are rock bottom prices for a converted camera and rig. Nice to see the KAPtery really delivering. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| Dongjie | "cool " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "nbawawa, Yes there is a lot of potentially confusing information in this research note. The note is about a very special case in which photosynthe..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| nbawawa | "hi guys, it's my first post here, sorry for my english but I'm a french native speaker :o) Just to be sure : if well understood, the goal of th..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| liz | "wiki page for event updates! http://publiclab.org/wiki/barnraising-northeast-2014 " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Kendrick90, You're right that single camera systems have their limitations. The Wratten 25A camera produces a very good NIR channel (blue) with ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| kendrick90 | "I initially found this site while searching for automatic insect recognition because I'm interested in the potential for robots to help us by shoot..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Thanks Chris! " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That nice windows program for Mobius is not official, just written by the isoprop guy. I guess nobody has done it yet for the Mac. Here is the con..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago |