*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 | "Wow... he's a character who'd likely have gotten along with us... That's amazing that you have those plates! You said it was probably not the orig..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'll definitely be there! " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Apparently, from my phone, not nearly well enough. There are disadvantages to a mobile friendly website... Using baseline subtraction in Spectral ..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's an excellent color table for the heat metaphor. This topic of how to display NDVI deserves much more attention. "It'd be neat to test the r..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "I've been messing with different NDVI gradients, and have been trying to get one which shows "cool" colors below zero, and doesn't circle back arou..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| geobduffy | "Thanks for the quick response. I'd be happy to be a Low Alt Aerial Photo Guinea Pig for testing :) " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ned's plugin is available under downloads here: https://github.com/nedhorning/PhotoMonitoringPlugin. I still has a bit of a learning curve but offe..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| geobduffy | "Do you have a source for Ned's ImageJ plugin? I'm very curious about that. Also, I may have gotten ahead of myself with excitement...Do you think t..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| geobduffy | "Thank you for sharing this information. Your results are very promising. I am struggling to come up with a way to capture imagery that can be used ..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Chris - i copied this down from YouTube but the version I got was a bit pixellated. Any way you could post the original so we can reduce copyin..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "This is AMAZING. Am I seeing changes in individual plant photosynthesis levels when it passes in and out of shadow, or am I projecting? Really go..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "It'd be neat to test the roscoe with our spectrometer against their spectrum graph. I was excited to see Jeff Hecht working on testing some filters..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "this will go great with a bit of Philip Glass-style sountrack... :-) " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Here is the one I got for Rosco and also a test to see if Jeff has implemented markdown in note comments. This one mimics two AA batteries and sho..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "GORGEOUS. Do you have a link to those AC adapters that fit in the battery compartment? Any idea what models of Canons they'd fit? Brilliant find...." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Super exciting! an important step will be to compare this result to NDVI produced with two cameras Excited to see that step too. Maybe it's just..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I definitely want some Rosco #2007! this is a great idea, it seems like what we need to do is find or make a custom white balance card for the Ros..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| straylight | "Chris, this is so cool, really good info. I wonder if it applies to single malts ? " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "cool " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Both timelapse programs allow selection of any available resolution including 1600x1200. The image quality I was getting from the lens did not see..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "I was really excited to see the image crispness and resolution of the Sanm cams that Mathew used -- he had to use a specific program called Quicky ..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Nice! i find my beans won't twine around poles that are smooth, they'll only twine around the textured bark of sticks or rope, preferably manila or..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Excel allows nesting if statements, so: if((if(red>green,red,green))>blue,(if(red>green,red,green)),blue) should work, if you're not int..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "=max(blue:red) is soo much easier. Thanks. The greater of three method seems to be useful for transmission or absorption spectra when a continuous..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago |