this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Captured this guy doing some sort of low-flying surveying. The way they were flying around erratically and extremely low got me curious. Looked up the aircraft: the leasing company photos didn’t show this device.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Could be anything, but as a geophysicist, I assume it is a ground penetrating radar or similar. I don't see a lens that would suggest it is a spectrometer. And it's missing the characteristic shape of a lidar. Could theoretically be a scintillatometer (gamma ray spectrometer) --

In most cases the data will be much better lower to the ground.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OMG yes, perfect explanation! I had suspected something to do with pipelines, mostly due to the absolute whacky flight paths I saw when I looked it up on FlightAware. Thanks!

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Bell Jetranger, tail N233MH registered out of LA, by way of Meridian Helicopters LLC, last flown in Colorado.

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what are you up too General Shenanigans?