*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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| suman | "Some initial results using your white balance settings are impressive, however in this particular picture the roof of the house is showing high pho..." | Read more » | almost 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Finding inexpensive, do-it-yourself calibration targets is an obstacle to NDVI calibration. You need targets for which the spectral reflectance is ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| J_tanna | "@cfastie sample image is like this, " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| J_tanna | "@cfastie On an agriculture land, How can we specify the targets for calibration? " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Here is my discussion of calibrating NDVI images: https://publiclab.org/notes/cfastie/05-01-2016/calibration-cogitation And Ned's most recent note..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| J_tanna | "@cfastie Thank you for your time. I have two more doubts in my mind, 1.) What are the steps that I need to apply for image calibration? 2.) What is..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "With a blue filter which blocks only red light, the red channel will capture NIR. Use the red channel for NIR and the blue channel for visible ligh..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "With a blue filter which blocks only red light, the red channel will capture NIR. Use the red channel for NIR and the blue channel for visible ligh..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| J_tanna | "@cfastie What should be the formula of NDVI for NIR camera as it is blocking red light. " | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| stef | "@warren, Here is the link to my latest cam https://spectralworkbench.org/spectrums/99143# also in Sun sky tags the slit is ca 0.04 mm cam is the MS..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Can you link to your data directly? I think it's possible higher resolution could help, but there may also be other resolution issues such as the ..." | Read more » | about 7 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, yes, it was a while ago, but this note: https://publiclab.org/notes/patcoyle/05-01-2014/anoter-example-using-free-sfm-tools-to-model-saugus-..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Pat, I recall that you might have tried Meshlab with this type of data. Were you able to do some quantitative analysis (e.g., volume) with M..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Thanks Chris. Nice example of use of the surface from motion tools, ICE, Google Earth, and more of the Autodesk tools' capabilities. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "I've submitted a bug report with steps to fix: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/885 -- sorry! " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'm actually having trouble editing this page -- must be a bug due to it being "converted" to a question instead of being one from the start. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Actually i haven't tried marking a question as an activity; i guess it works? Maybe not a good practice? I dunno -- new territory for us! As to you..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Also: I'm not sure if you're testing (1) Hot Tap Water vs Cold Tap Water, or (2) Hot Tap Water vs. Hot Tap Water which has cooled down. Put another..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "So both questions and research notes can be marked as an activity? And at some point, folks replicating the activity can post their answers? I like..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Scott, There is no problem. The Mobius can do interval shooting at any interval, and it can also do motion detection. The trail camera has NIR LED..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "Is the problem that the mobius can t do intervals greater than a certain amount? or mostly it's the NIR and motion capture that you are looking fo..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "Great question -- I used tags to add the prompt for posting replications; if you're willing, would you mind posting your results using the button a..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "You are correct that this is not really an extraction. It's just plant material chopped up finely in a blender with some liquid. I also did this wi..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| iamkat | "Hi, I tried to re-create the lycopene extraction with methanol and ethanol (lab grade) but didn't get anywhere. It's my understanding that they are..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago |