*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 | "Mercury can account for the blue and green peaks, but not the red peaks. So all the tubes (except maybe the red one) have mercury. The red, pink, a..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| warren | "wow, cool -- i guess all mercury, huh? i suppose there aren't that many things that glow as bright as mercury, and if it gives you R, G and B, tint..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Spectralod, Your long tube CFL spectrum is calibrated correctly. I am not sure why you are not getting more distinct peaks with regions between ..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| spectralod | "I should have also said that I don't understand this website. It's all over the place. Is there one of those standardized forums you could use inst..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| spectralod | "How do you calibrate anything? I haven't figured this out yet. I don't have 3 blue wavelengths to choose from...I don't know which other green wave..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "I was able to get a copy of the article. From a brief scan it looks very pertinent to what we are doing/discussing, but I have not really read it y..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Well done,Tom. This article which was mentioned at the Google group, discusses the issue of focusing on the spectral image. It even has an equatio..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "maybe I have it now " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Your text to link...O.K. I am going to try to insert drawings from Picasa: it seems I haven't learned to do imbedding, but here is the link htt..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The Google group is completely separate from this web site, so the two places have somewhat independent conversations. I guess the Google group is ..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Chris, I will work on doing an upload somehow. I have plots-spectrometry in my google groups, but I can't find these research notes there. " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Chris, I also noticed the 405nm line was all but absent in your spectrum, and that is one reason I brought up my previous experience. I came acros..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Tom, images would be very helpful (so my mind doesn't explode). If you upload images to a site like Flickr or Picasa you can grab the HTML embeddin..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Hi straylight, You make some good points, and I think you need to think more about a couple of things. 1) Even with a slit small enough to produc..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Tom, How did the CFL lines drop off in your earlier spectra? I have noticed that my spectral images taken with P&S and DSLR cameras do not reco..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Chris, How did you overlay the spectral image on the Excel graph? There is another way to extract data from the camera image: Use a software that..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "Good job. I am inspired to work on a similar project. I love the way you recycle what most see as junk! A man after my own heart. I made a spect..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, i did not regret that. " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "You tell me. " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| warren | "If i watch the video, will I know why the post is named "Ebert"? " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| straylight | "rather nice. I need to lift my game ! :) " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| straylight | "Chris, you said: "At certain grating angles, it is not possible to see a sharp image of the spectrum when the grating is too close to the slit. Bu..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| gonzoearth | "It looks awesome. I look forward to trying lots of these tweaks! " | Read more » | almost 12 years ago | |||
| Tom_H | "I think the reason that Chris has trouble getting good resolution at certain angles has to do with the eye's focusing mechanism, and the focus may ..." | Read more » | almost 12 years ago |