Notes from Wed, July 20 2011 meeting:

General sense that we want to do infrared mapping, but where?

**Farming**

* Detroit - Jeff Sturgis urban permaculture plus the other FabLab guy
* Dom may have ideas? 
* Boston area - summer youth program talking to several farms
* Liz - north carolina organic farm? Mathew, ideas?
* Appalshop guy (Wylie’s Last Resort) - Delbert- West Virginia- farmers to partner with
* Sara- organic farmer, afraid of loosing org. cert. because of 

**Wetlands... ?**

* Ping natalie about potential sites. non NE? 
fracking- both nat gas issues and organic farm-
  * WV/NC- accessibility, range for Adam to be involved on longer term basis
* Helen wood park? Mobile Bay- TNC, Baykeepers

Open invitation separate from travel-included invitations.

###Infrared mapping possible intereted folks:###

PLOTS staff
Lindbergh - professor mentioned in Lindbergh grant- Kentucky? guy who did kite mapping over farm
Carl di Salvo - sara can you put a line about who he is?
Nathan Craig
Alice Gray and/or Shai Efrati from West Bank/Jerusalem
Natalie Jeremijenko + elves
Eymund Diegel
Christine and Mikel
Alex Kolker
Louisiana GRN- wetlands specialist or Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation- John
Stewart- vineyard person who does infrared imaging
Stewart - person (greyhawk?) who does infrared mapping?
Melina & Josh from Yale sustainable food project?
Scouter? visual veg. analysis person to join us?
biodynamic person
Mary Queen of Vietnam or VAYLA

Next infrared mapping steps for investigation:

* illustrated guide and video - brainstorm and design
* simple web interface for making composites
* Products: NDVI or NRG or other things
* hit a target area? 100 acres? 500? (georgia/Mestia map was 1700 acres in 2 days)
* correlate it with ground measurements (calibration)
* investigating or establishing utility for farmers or wetlands people?
* refractometer comparisons? BRIX people or nutrient-rich farming people?


Exploratory: 

* correlation with carbon sequestration?
* species or health classification - Adam’s supervised ...
* topography? 3d modeling 
* hyperspectral analysis, spectrometer testing?