*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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| warren | "Another way to approach this is to standardize everything as much as possible, so it follows a well-described, simple, standard process, which we c..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "djibi2, That would be a great test. Even better would be three cameras (RGB, NIR, infrablue). Most infrablue cameras do not capture as pure an infr..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "In case others are interested in the answer to this question: The histograms of the infrablue photos are screen captures from Photoshop pasted ont..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi jalarid, Yes that is correct. There is lots of active development about which cameras and filters work best, and how to get the most meaningful ..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "That's right, jalarid! " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| jalarid | "Hi, so if I am understanding this correctly I only need to remove the IR filter from my camera and replace it with Rosco #2007 VS Blue filter. At t..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| djibi2 | "If one of your cameras in the "two-camera" flight was using the Superblue filter couldn't you create NRG photos from that? Then you could do a dir..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "kykytos-- I put Chris out of the filter business . If you are interested in helping us do research on filters, please e-mail me. mathew at publiclab " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "kykytos, Sorry, I am out of the business of mailing #2007 filter. We are currently testing several different filters with different cameras to choo..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| kykytos | "I'd like some of the Rosco filter too. Thanks! " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi jaluna, NDVI tells us something about plant health because it quantifies the difference between light that is absorbed by plant pigments and use..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| jaluna | "Hello cfastie! I follow your job with interest, but there are a thing that I not understand well. You say "A filter can be used to block all red l..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| nedhorning | "Increasing dynamic range will go a long way in improving NDVI results in the shadows. There are some high-dynamic-range image processing methods th..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ned, your explanation suggests that exposure is critical. The shadow in the close-up is essentially the same as the ones in the gigapan - a shadow ..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| nedhorning | "Great shots. The impact of shadows on NDVI will vary with the darkness of the shadow. Lower pixel values (darker shadow) will be more likely to pro..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Partial iFarm head count, 12 names below: Ned Horning, Chris Fastie, VT, camping Don Blair, Amherst, camping Craig Versek, Providence, camping Jef..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| liz | "@Jeff i really like this NDVI color gradient that replaces violet with black. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This set has the Rosco and the halogen. https://spectralworkbench.org/sets/show/366 " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Can you link to the spectra so I can give it a try? Thanks. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Jeff, Your first question: I subtracted the Rosco spectrum from the halogen light spectrum, but the result made no sense at all. So I just used the..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "I've been modifying lots of cameras with the new superblue filter (using the Rosco filter you sent). For those (like webcams) which don't have cust..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| PlanetenPaultje | "When I went to school in 1969 (something) the physics classroom was equipped with a big slide lantern that was installed by Siemens in 1925. It got..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Brother Will, who sent me the lantern slides, asked a good question today: What is a lantern slide? I guess I should have assumed that many folks b..." | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, what a thoughtful and informative piece. Delightful that you also had the R. W. Wood, infrared photographs show up in your mail box. " | Read more » | about 11 years ago |