Public Lab Wiki documentation


Photo Monitoring

This is a revision from December 20, 2016 16:50. View all revisions
3 | 45 | | #13450

Photography is a powerful and affordable way to document all kinds of environmental issues. We'll be collecting different techniques and tips here -- stay tuned and pitch in where you can! We'll be starting with a focus on #timelapse photography:

Timelapse Activities

Timelapse photography is a way to automatically trigger a camera on an interval -- for example, every minute, or every hour.

Purpose Category Status Author Time Difficulty Replications
Raspberry + NoIR cam + Sensors to detect water stress of the plants during their growing - - @LaPa - - 0 replications: Try it »
How to visually document a site - - @stevie - - 1 replications: Try it »
Use a rubber band and knotted string to trigger a camera build complete @mathew 15m easy 0 replications: Try it »
Scripting Raspberry Pi to boot and shoot timelapse photos build review-me @mathew - hard 0 replications: Try it »
Hacking trail cameras to document blasts on Mountaintop Removal sites - - @LauraChipley - - 0 replications: Try it »
Bean Cam observe - @cfastie 1d medium 0 replications: Try it »
Set up a Raspberry Pi Camera with Pi Builder - - @warren - - 0 replications: Try it »
Using Mobius camera as a "trap cam" in field deployments - - @tonyc - - 0 replications: Try it »
Testing - water depth from camera image - - @chalmers - - 0 replications: Try it »
Set up a Mobius Action Cam for timelapse - - @warren - - 0 replications: Try it »
IR+VS TIMELAPSE - - @hunter - - 0 replications: Try it »
CrocusCam observe - @cfastie 10h hard 0 replications: Try it »
DaffyCam - - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
Time lapse mode on the Crenova Game camera - - @stevie - - 0 replications: Try it »

Activities should include a materials list, costs and a step-by-step guide to construction with photos. Learn what makes a good activity here.

Frequently Asked Questions

We're collecting and working our way through a wide array of questions about timelapse photography -- if you can contribute your own questions, or answer others', please do!

Ask a question about timelapse photography

Title Author Updated Likes Comments
Is a Water Proof Solar Raspberry Pi Camera project viable? @icarito about 6 years ago 9
Advice regarding taking photos over frozen @dailyxeoto over 6 years ago 1
How To Make Time Lapse Spectrometer @LightWaveResearch8000 over 7 years ago 2
How do I cheaply do long-term outdoor timelapses? @warren over 7 years ago 1
How can real-time camera monitoring be set up? @cherylh over 7 years ago 4
How do different time intervals for timelapse cameras affect their required maintenance? @cherylh over 7 years ago 4
Considerations when using timelapse to monitor blasting at mine sites? @mlamadrid almost 8 years ago 0
Advice regarding taking photos over frozen surface? @stevie about 8 years ago 5
How do you get the Crenova Game and Trail Hunting Camera into time-lapse mode? @stevie about 8 years ago 5
How do I make a video from a series of photos? @warren about 8 years ago 7
What are ways to strengthen photographic evidence in court? @warren about 8 years ago 0
Trail camera on State Park Land? @DMerwitz about 8 years ago 3
Can we use a timelapse or video camera to monitor particulate air plumes? @gretchengehrke over 8 years ago 4
Is there a water quality equivalent of Smoke School, the EPA air pollution observer certification? @warren over 8 years ago 1
What's the best way to archive/store a timelapse video? @warren over 8 years ago 3
Has anyone used a timelapse camera in stream monitoring? @stevie over 8 years ago 15
Has anyone tried a dashboard camera for timelapse or aerial mapping? @warren over 8 years ago 3
Initial results and resolution of timelapse mode issue: PL Mobius Infragram Point and Shoot @patcoyle about 10 years ago 3

Frac sand photographic monitoring

There's some good resources posted on this page which are specific to water monitoring or monitoring of frac sand sites -- check it out, and we're working to open some of these ideas up into questions and activities soon.

Updates

Title Author Updated Likes Comments
Problem with Photo Monitoring Plugin on Fiji @SamWolfe about 4 years ago 3
JAM#6: Documentación Fotográfica @imvec over 4 years ago 0
Is a Water Proof Solar Raspberry Pi Camera project viable? @icarito about 6 years ago 9
Website for public data @ottinger over 6 years ago 1
Proofmode + Open Camera @imvec almost 7 years ago 3
Set up a Mobius Action Cam for timelapse @warren over 3 years ago 0
What tags are helpful for flood/disaster images? @zengirl2 over 7 years ago 0
Mapping rugged coastal environments with a Raspberry Pi and a balloon? @samwf over 7 years ago 8
Rough prototype of video analysis tool for monitoring a pixel's brightness/color over time @warren over 7 years ago 2
Stormwater Workshop 6: Monitoring and Lessons Learned @stevie over 7 years ago 0
Time lapse mode on the Crenova Game camera @stevie over 7 years ago 2
How do I cheaply do long-term outdoor timelapses? @warren over 7 years ago 1
Use Archive.org to share large photo collections @xose over 7 years ago 7
Use Google Drive to share large photo collections @warren over 7 years ago 0
Share large numbers of photos (or files) using BitTorrent @warren over 7 years ago 0
Mary Dougherty's guidelines for submitting pollution photos to the Wisconsin DNR @mathew over 7 years ago 0
UWEC air quality monitoring @bkleist over 7 years ago 3
Frac sand hotspot testing and site survey @stevie almost 8 years ago 0
Good guides on doing a photo survey of a site? @warren almost 8 years ago 5
Next Saturday: Timelapse Kit workshop and Social Emergency Response Center in Somerville @warren almost 8 years ago 4
Trail Cam: Stream/ Wetland Sedimentation @dswenson almost 8 years ago 10
Air Quality Monitoring at UWEC @bkleist almost 8 years ago 10
Considerations when using timelapse to monitor blasting at mine sites? @mlamadrid almost 8 years ago 0
Photo Documentation of Frac Sand Mine Surface Water Spills @mlamadrid almost 8 years ago 1

Share

Public Lab is open for anyone and will always be free. By signing up you'll join a diverse group of community researchers and tap into a lot of grassroots expertise.

Sign up