Public Lab

Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Technologies
javascript, ruby on rails, node.js, raspberry pi
Topics
science, environment, collaboration, community, hardware
https://publiclab.org
Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Measuring pollution at low cost

Public Lab is focused on democratizing the tools and techniques of environmental science so that communities who face pollution and other environmental problems can actually use them.

We believe that low cost, open source, easy to use hardware and software can enable anyone to collect data with which to hold polluters accountable.

Sensor data and open hardware development

Public Lab software projects focus on two areas: community collaboration and open hardware development (PublicLab.org), and data processing for our sensors and tools (MapKnitter.org and SpectralWorkbench.org, among others).

Our collaboration and development platform PublicLab.org enables thousands of people to publish updates and share designs for emerging environmental open hardware projects. Our browser-based data analysis tools make use of HTML5 features such as CSS 3d transforms for image distortion and the WebRTC webcam API for capturing spectral data, to make advanced features available to users in a powerful cross-platform, user-friendly, database-backed approach to open science tools.

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2019 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
AASHNA MITTAL
Mentor
Rahul-Bhatia, jainaman224, Jeffrey Warren, Harshith, Sagarpreet Chadha-1
Organization
Public Lab
Image Sequencer enhancement focusing Module Implementations, Particle analysis and code Maintainability.
My proposal is based on enhancements that would incorporate real world use cases into the project and testing and maintainability that will bring...
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Pranshu Srivastava
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Igor Wilbert, Harshith, Sasha Boginsky
Organization
Public Lab
`matcher.js` library and `Leaflet.DistortableImage` overhaul
This project is divided into two parts, namely, building a matcher.js library and revamping Public Lab's Leaflet.DistortableImage repository, a...
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Contributor
Margaret Norton
Mentor
Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Rahul-Bhatia, Jeffrey Warren, Gaurav Sachdeva
Organization
Public Lab
A small proposal for global environmental monitoring with Image Sequencer
The project will increase Image Sequencer capability while simultaneously demonstrating the ability to process satellite images. The general approach...
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Álax Alves
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, jainaman224, Sourav Sahoo, Sasha Boginsky, Sidharth
Organization
Public Lab
Mapknitter Rails Upgrade
Increase test coverage. Improve CI integration and pipelining. Upgrade Rails framework version
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Gautami Gupta
Mentor
Atibhi, Emmanuel Hayford, Sidharth, Mayank Pathela-1, Gaurav Sachdeva, Jeffrey Warren
Organization
Public Lab
GSoC proposal Public Labs: Notification System and UX Improvements
Notification System Notification system mainly consists of two parts, In-app Navbar Notifications and Web Push Notifications. -In-app Navbar...
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Kaustubh Nair
Mentor
jainaman224, Sasha Boginsky, Sourav Sahoo, CoderJolly, Sidharth Bansal
Organization
Public Lab
Mapknitter Rails upgrade
This project MapKnitter's Rails version from 3.2 to the latest stable version. Along with this, I will also be: Increasing test coverage Improving...
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Contributor
Isha Gupta
Mentor
Geekychaser, Sidharth, Cess, Gaurav Sachdeva, Jeffrey Warren, Igor Wilbert
Organization
Public Lab
Sensor Data Upload and Display Library
A standalone HTML+JavaScript based library through which CSV data can be uploaded and charts can be plotted by selecting different columns from it....
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Contributor
Rishabh Rawat
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Harshith
Organization
Public Lab
Community Toolbox Overhaul
Community-toolbox allows everybody to take a look at the activities going on in the PublicLab projects, helps in welcoming newcomers. It plays a...
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Divy Khare
Mentor
Rahul-Bhatia, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Igor Wilbert, Jeffrey Warren, Harshith
Organization
Public Lab
Image-Sequencer v3: Boosting the performance and adding demonstration based on colorimetry
This project aims to boost the performance of Image Sequencer project by using WebAssembly for accelerating the performance of various parts of code...
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Contributor
Vidit Chitkara
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Sidharth, jainaman224
Organization
Public Lab
Mapknitter synchronous editing
Multi user synchronous image editing in realtime (publiclab/mapknitter)
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Contributor
namangupta
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Sidharth, Gaurav Sachdeva
Organization
Public Lab
Websocket Interaction for Real-time Interaction and Sensor data and Display Library
Integration of ActionCable to implement web Sockets for Various Real-Time communication in the plots2 project such as for Notification, Comments etc....
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Contributor
Divya Baid
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Sourav Sahoo, Sidharth, Cess, Gaurav Sachdeva, Liz Barry
Organization
Public Lab
Mapknitter Image Management and Synchronous Editing
MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export...
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