INFRAGRAM WHAT YOU EAT

A civic science experiement

• Project site: https://infragramwhatyoueat.wordpress.com/
• Role:  Camera hacking, concept, NDVI image processing, site scout
• Tools: Infragram, GIMP
• Deliverable: Documentation site,  Letter to PLOTS, GIMP plugins, Instructable 1, Instructable 2

Infragram is an affordable Do-It-Yourself tool for near-infrared photography to measure plant health, developed by the Public Laboratory for Open Science and Technology (PLOTS), an open community of citizen scientists.

PLOTS projects aim to democratize the production of scientific knowledge, especially regarding community environmental health – to give communities low-cost tools to redress the imbalance of power that would otherwise keep them in the dark about whether their water is safe to drink, for example or air safe to breathe. Infragram is

With this goal of civic science in mind, our team wondered:

Can we use an Infragram camera to measure the quality of produce from grocery stores across Atlanta, perhaps to map produce quality to income disparity across neighborhoods?

Check the project page for much more information on our process.