This week, the Public Lab community newsletter is being compiled from
Houston where its nice and hot, so I want to make sure to drop the coolest
Public Lab news on you (I know, bad humor)! Its been another great week
with lots of mappings, people testing out and writing about their balloon
mapping kits and the promise of a great upcoming workshop on thermal
imaging:
1) The *next issue of the Grassroots Mapping Forum* is in full swing, if
you're interested in getting involved, check out this call for
contributors<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/forum-planning>
.
2) Last Saturday, folks in the Bay area of California both *mapped and
created an aerial film of Dolores
Park*<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/5-18-2012/must-see-map-a...>
.
3) There will be a *t**hermal flashlight workshop at AS220 in Providence on
May 26th from 1-4pm. Come make, use and help develop low cost tools for thermal
imaging <http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/thermal-photography>! Sign up
here: http://labs.as220.org/courses/FAB114. *
4) In Louisiana, we had two days of perfect weather that allowed us to map
a couple of different spots-- *Big Branch NWR and Wetlands Conservancy*.
Scott Eustis of Gulf Restoration Network, wrote a short summary
here<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eustatic/5-18-2012/photos-suburban-...>
.
5) *Aerial mapping blog posts and articles*. Geek.com writer, Sal
Cangeloso tried
out the balloon mapping kit for the first
time<http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/adventures-in-balloon-mapping-20...>,
*Hollow *(an interactive documentary) collaborator, Eric Lovell, did a test
flight<http://elainemcmillion.tumblr.com/post/23257116220/hollows-balloon-ma...>
before
filming begins and Lifehacker.com contributor, Thorin Klosowski, wrote a
great post (with video
included)<http://lifehacker.com/5911096/how-to-balloon-map-your-neighborhood-go...>about
aerial mapping.
6) Randomly selected research notes from the past week:
Making a balloon- making a
jig<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/mathew/5-18-2012/making-balloon-mak...>(posted
by mathew)
Sketches for airborne particulate sensor for camera
phones<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/5-15-2012/sketches-airborne-...>(posted
by warren)
NDVI out of the
shadows<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/cfastie/5-15-2012/ndvi-out-shadows>(posted
by cfastie)
Using kites as atmospheric wind speed
meters<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/mathew/5-11-2012/using-kites-atmosp...>(posted
by mathew)
Follow up on faucet cover camera
enclosure<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/patcoyle/5-18-2012/follow-faucet-co...>(posted
by patcoyle, with a nice follow-up by Sal Cangeloso)
As always, if we missed something, please either send it out to the
listserve or email your content to shan...@publiclaboratory.org to be
included in the next newsletter. Happy Friday, Shannon
--
Shannon Dosemagen
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
publiclaboratory.org
@PublicLab
