*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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| Dongjie | "cool, how do you make the figure like Google streetmap? " | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| nathanathan | "I've started experimenting with phosphorescent paint. Here's a link to a note on what I've done so far. " | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| nathanathan | "I recently ordered a smartphone spectrometer, measuring glow in the dark pigment spectra seems like a fun project to try it out on. I'll give it ..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "For some reason it's hard to find spectra of glow-in-the-dark pigments. Really, a thousand Public Lab spectrometers out there and no one has done t..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| nathanathan | "I would like to know how glow in the dark paint compares to LEDs. Postcards with glow in the dark rainbows painted on them could be packaged with s..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Would the LED have to be placed outside the entrance slit? Otherwise the grating would form an image of the entire bulb. Standard single color LED..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'm interested in something similar for spectrometer exposure calibration -- putting an LED and battery inside each spectrometer, on one side, so y..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The Canon A2200 (refurbished) is on sale today (November 21) for $48.99 (free shipping) with a one year warranty: http://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/e..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool test! this is definitely the most pixels in a research note, as far as I've seen. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "sorry, I was confused. clearly dual camera. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I think doing calculations based on red and green might be two ways to get to the same result that Chris was seeking in his Oaktober note-- the cha..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "It's weird because we think of green being reflective, but compared to IR, it's very absorbent. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Mathew, To make sure there is no confusion, the (NIR-Red)/(NIR+Red) formula is not used for the BG3 filter because there is no red visible channel...." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Mathew, That does seem to be a consistent pattern. I think you are right that a green filter might offer the purest visible light channel in a sing..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "looking at the sensor sensitivity graph for the Nikon D200, its interesting that green is the least sensitive channel in the infrared band, implyin..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Pat, The Wratten 25A is an old standard photographic filter that is still widely available in glass and gel. I think Ned bought a genuine Kodak ..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Thanks Chris and Ned, this is an encouraging line of inquiry. Remind me on the source for the Wratten 25 filter material, or is it in the prior not..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Looks good Chris. Nice composite slide of the PL tools. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The aperture mechanism definitely varies among Powershots. By peering into the front of the lens I learned that the high end ones have an actual ir..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| timmm063 | "Have you considered watching other sites for cameras that are refurbished? One I would recommend is canonpricewatch.com. It also shows prices for o..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| danbeavers | "The filter should have nothing to do with the difference in quality between the center and edge of the image since it is uniform in density. Lense..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| liz | "These photos are great! We'd like to feature your photo on the mailing list to inspire more folks to take festive winter photos like this. Would th..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I was assuming that the best way to preserve image quality when removing a glass filter would be to replace it with another glass filter. Plastic, ..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Very interesting line of inquiry. I've always been a bit confused about the role of the filter material itself in focus -- my assumption has been t..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago |