Anybody recognize this payload or device?
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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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.
Bell Jetranger, tail N233MH registered out of LA, by way of Meridian Helicopters LLC, last flown in Colorado.
LIDAR pipeline inspection
https://www.lasen.com/helicopter-alpis
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!
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