*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 | "It's a good point -- esp. always to be sure that the scope of the test is clear. The idea here was more exploratory, but in general this kind of co..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| GreenChemist | "Hi Warren, Indeed the test would not find the bacteria, you need a polymerase chain reaction (a PCR test), or grow a culture. I am not sure if this..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Don - sorry, you never wrote back so I hadn't changed the title until now - it now says "Coqui" only - thanks. The conclusion you draw: it s..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| GreenChemist | "Hi Warren, I am new at this, so maybe I missing the ball, but isn't one of the reason why not to drink from the hot tap the possible presence of L..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| Tbtouaki | "Hi I had wrong white balance for my camera. Thanks everyone for the help. Sorry for the trouble If anyone has any idea on how to save pictures take..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| fjcaceres | "Chris On last thing on the Agribotix site is that they conclude the best filters are the blue ones Javier " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "@fgiorlando, I assume the Hoya 25A filters are just as good as Wratten 25A filters for infrared photography. The Hoya glass filters would produce c..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "There seems to be a lot of marketing hooey at the Agribotix site. They seem to be doing DIY uncalibrated infrared vegetation index work like a lot ..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| fjcaceres | "Because I don't really know much about filters, I came across this company named Agribotix that do NDVI and below the next paragraph is their expla..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The angle from which the photo is taken and the angle of the sun do influence the NDVI result. NDVI values are a function of how much red and NIR l..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| kykytos | "Is it important the station in which the photo is taken? I mean, how do you differ infrared reflected radiation from infrared emitted radiation (th..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | " PCB on the right, of course. " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Will Macfarlane (@wmacfarl) kept working on this and has a more compact version which we're not quite sure works. There may be a problem with the 5..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| Tbtouaki | "Hi I have tried several white balance options before, base on what I've read. On this pics the settings were exactly the same as the maxmax camera...." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Rita, Your photo above (NIR1_Red3_b.jpg) will not produce very good NDVI. Most of the pixels of plants have the same value in each of the three ..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| Tbtouaki | "Hi I currently have a modified canon (IR block removed) with a wratten 25A Red filter. My pictures are really nice looking but I have big problems ..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| khufkens | "@warren, not sure it justifies a separate page yet, my comment is rather low on details / text. I would need to put some context to it all if this ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow @khufkens, I think your graphs and notes merit a new research note... We could link it to this note as a followup? " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| khufkens | "Related, I found this post, discussing in part the asymmetry in the current desktop spectrometer design. I'm designing a symmetrical layout similar..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| straylight | "thanks khufkens, interesting graph and really well presented. On a qualitative level, you can see this by shining the red laser through a DVD grat..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| khufkens | "I'm making a simple spectrometer to extract the spectral response curves of an imaging sensor. To this end I made some calculations to help me desi..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| fgiorlando | "Interesting stuff indeed, I have been lurking here for a while and trying to build a good documentary NDVI camera for a public gardening project. I..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| cversek | "@tobi_k Hi, I am glad that there are others testing out these sensors with a skeptical attitude. Very often, the abosulute baseline readings from ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Giovanni, I posted a response at the plots-infrared Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/plots-infrared/l_dZKqFLGRE Chris " | Read more » | about 9 years ago |