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cfastie "Good point. Here is a version with 4 shells and no support. RTegelbeckersDSK4s.x3g " | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "It might be good to also note which if any of these programs will make orthophotos -- just autostitch air photos into map images without topographi..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Matt, I always use swivels because they are so convenient for hooking and unhooking the gear. Another advantage may be that they actually swivel a..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "This is a nice design, well thought out. Here is an x3g file for printing it on a MakerBot Replicator 1 with these settings: PLA, right extruder,..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "David, Did you see this note about the potential to indicate the presence of cyanobacteria using the difference between NDVI made with infrablue an..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Here is a list of the things you want to say: - The list MUST start after a blank line (like the preceding one) + Each line starts with a dash or ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Great progress Pat. The Wratten 25 photos are really sharp. They should allow very good NDVI images. Also, nice car. The blemish looks a lot like..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "It's good to know about the NDRE. Instead of computing the difference between reflected NIR and reflected red light, I think NDRE replaces reflecte..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Thanks Grayson, I was referring to stretching the histograms in the Fiji plugin. I forget what the default is, but it can make a big difference. ..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Rita, If you are using two cameras, one unmodified and one to capture an NIR image, the best filter to use in the NIR camera is one that blocks all..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "It's going to be 40° F on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, so if you want to collect environmental data inside the SNOWFEST igloo, the RIFFLE might ..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Grayson, The NDVI images look excellent. Just to clarify a few things, I think the following are true: The NIR camera has had its IR block filter..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Nice photo. The NDVI results look quite believable, even for that complicated scene. In Fiji, when a fresh NDVI image is active, select Process/Ma..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "The camera can't distinguish between NIR and other wavelengths, so it assumes that light getting to the blue pixels is mostly blue, light hitting t..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "The Fiji plugin doesn't subtract anything, it just assumes you have a visible channel and a NIR channel. Once you remove the IR block filter, there..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "I have a smartphone spectrometer, so maybe bring a cuvette to SNOWFEST and that should be all I need. " | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "We have been hoping that it would be possible to do this in post processing. Put the 18% gray card (or some other card) in the scene and take the p..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "You are going to make a lot of people envious with your lovely crisp images. The NIR photo looks as sharp as the VIS version, so I guess you have a..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "CMOS sensors seem to handle IR light differently. There as been some limited comparison of CMOS and CCD Powershots. One hypothesis is that the colo..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "This is a really good result. Why is NDVI artificially high in the shadows? In really dark parts of a photo, the values representing how bright eac..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Holy Mackerel. SCIENCE! This is a great use of the Public Lab spectrometer, and you are getting very good spectra with it. Does the RenekaBio ass..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Jeff, If you include the dimensions of the part of the spectrometer that inserts into the window, and the dimensions of the cuvettes, the next mock..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Tbtouaki, It sounds like you have a full spectrum camera, one that has the IR blocking filter removed and nothing replacing it. By placing a filte..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago
cfastie "Benjamin Hickman posted his early results from a linear array spectrometer here: http://publiclab.org/notes/bhickman/10-12-2013/ccd-diodearray-spec..." | Read more » almost 11 years ago