08-20-2010, 06:56 PM
Tom,
So then, you now see the technology exists and is used in law enforcement from the UN on down to many random nations around the world for the locating of Marijuana, etc. This one is the Canadian report recommending use of the Hyper spectral imaging vs. the other method.
What I initially cited as a generic term was a "safe guess" at what I saw on that helicopter. Of what type I had no idea for sure but it was something more than a simple IR instrument and then I recalled that program from the Discovery Channel a while back in ‘06 talking about the “pot buster” instruments. Again, the “sensor” was about 4’-5’ long vertically mounted 12” diameter cylinder with a 2’ diameter cone pointed downward on the bottom of the tube. The helicopter made a slide maneuver sideways (tilting the helicopter) twice as if to peer just under the canopy of a large tree. Perhaps they were taking regular photos at that moment.
Perhaps the cone itself gives a 360 degree panoramic view through a prism… I don’t know for sure and that becomes speculation but it appeared to be optical. It wasn’t ground radar equipment or anything like that and there was no “pattern flown” it arrived 45 minutes after the first helicopter flew a similar path (the one with the sensor that resembled the old “sniffer tube”). It appeared as if there was a locating technique they used between the two helicopters and the differing equipped sensors and instruments.
Anyhow… it’s obviously not something they want to publicize as we now all know by trying to dig it out of the damn internet. High five to the Canadians for being so open
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
So then, you now see the technology exists and is used in law enforcement from the UN on down to many random nations around the world for the locating of Marijuana, etc. This one is the Canadian report recommending use of the Hyper spectral imaging vs. the other method.
What I initially cited as a generic term was a "safe guess" at what I saw on that helicopter. Of what type I had no idea for sure but it was something more than a simple IR instrument and then I recalled that program from the Discovery Channel a while back in ‘06 talking about the “pot buster” instruments. Again, the “sensor” was about 4’-5’ long vertically mounted 12” diameter cylinder with a 2’ diameter cone pointed downward on the bottom of the tube. The helicopter made a slide maneuver sideways (tilting the helicopter) twice as if to peer just under the canopy of a large tree. Perhaps they were taking regular photos at that moment.
Perhaps the cone itself gives a 360 degree panoramic view through a prism… I don’t know for sure and that becomes speculation but it appeared to be optical. It wasn’t ground radar equipment or anything like that and there was no “pattern flown” it arrived 45 minutes after the first helicopter flew a similar path (the one with the sensor that resembled the old “sniffer tube”). It appeared as if there was a locating technique they used between the two helicopters and the differing equipped sensors and instruments.
Anyhow… it’s obviously not something they want to publicize as we now all know by trying to dig it out of the damn internet. High five to the Canadians for being so open
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.