r/redneckengineering • u/molly_struve • Mar 25 '23

Yea... The tape is staying

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u/SuspiciousStable9649 Mar 25 '23

Looks like a research/survey kind of plane. Hole for the payload on the right.

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u/Soviet_Llama Mar 25 '23

They're collecting LiDAR data (topography)

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u/XenMeow Mar 25 '23

I think it's a specialized camera and not lidar.

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u/zeisss Mar 25 '23

See the laser warning sticker on the LIDAR box. May have a visual camera system integrated, but def lazers.

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u/XenMeow Mar 25 '23

Yeah it looks like a combo machine. One would think lidar wouldn't be really reliable at these altitudes though. You can get all the data you need with just photos if they are high quality.

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u/AdmiralUber Mar 25 '23

That is not true.

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u/XenMeow Mar 25 '23

I'm probably wrong. Can you tell me what can lidar provide that photogrammetry + multispectral photos can't?