*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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| cfastie | "Yes, I noticed that in your note you mentioned that tallow turns color in the fall and nothing else does. So you won't even need IR to distinguish ..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "chris fastie for president. i think tallow looks like broccoli from up high. it would be interesting to develop a color signature, or some kind o..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hello 10k Diamond Jubilee Admirals' Club. This is my 100th research note! " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, I'm not a expert user of the two cloudbased services, Dronemapper.com and Pix4d.com. I've only processed test cases. Pix4d.com, used to want..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Charlie, Some of the structure from motion programs that make 3D terrain models from aerial photos do not need any input other than the photos them..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cschweik | "Hi, Re a GPS on board with the cameras, I'm trying to understand how one would use that to georeference an image in GIS with good accuracy. I'm us..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Thanks guys, sounds like more will be coming soon and we'll all welcome the results. Don, I think it would be very useful to have an an Arduino-ba..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hi Pat, Chris, Chris: it'd be good to grab any additional photos you have of the blimp -- we can post those in a research note soon, as well as de..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Pat, I agree that details of the construction of the HackrBlimp would be of interest. That blimp cost less than US$10 and performed very well in so..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Nice work, all. It will be interesting to see the followup results. I was also interested in the details on: - construction of the HackrBlimp; is t..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "My GPS is set to WGS 84. " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cschweik | "Chris - fantastic work! Thanks for your labor and good thinking on this. My theory on the offset is that the GPS' could have been using different d..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Wow, formidable workflow, but intriguing results.The plug-in showed up on Mac with Firefox and Safari. " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Update: I've linked to torrents of the image files (and instructions for downloading them) at the H20NUTZ wiki page, here: http://publiclab.org/wik..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Great stuff! I'm creating some torrents of the images I ended up with ... " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "We got really lucky with the sync. When I got home I found that both cameras were less than a second from the GPS time signal. I had set the camera..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cschweik | "The idea of you, in the canoe becoming a GCP is a really neat idea Chris. We can see you in those high elevation images. So after the images are st..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Oh, I probably got those photos directly from Don's SD card later. I have not been to Flickr for a while. What happened? " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Flickr has been uglier than ever recently... but yeah. I just remember that as soon as our camera came down, Galen asked for the SD card. But fail..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Jeff, Galen is not aware that he has your photos. Did he put them on his netbook? Charlie, I am looking at a few of the high elevation RGB photos ..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| cschweik | "I've got some photos to share of the event too. How can we share them? I need one with a picture of the balloon above the canoe -- anyone have that..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Great post -- shall we start sharing our photos? I handed mine over to Galen. " | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| JIWheeler | "Great summary Chris! Enjoyed working with everyone over the last couple of days. Started working on some panoramas last night. Will post that and a..." | Read more » | over 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "BTW, this post is now the 7th most popular research note (by view count) on the site! " | Read more » | over 11 years ago |