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?