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Had scanning from the air going on here a few weeks ago.
Looks like something similar to LIDAR.

Drones are sometimes used for that as well. That's one of the things I was thinking when I heard about the drones, but I who ever was doing that would be likely to talk about it or announce it before hand.
 

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Looks like something similar to LIDAR.

Drones are sometimes used for that as well. That's one of the things I was thinking when I heard about the drones, but I who ever was doing that would be likely to talk about it or announce it before hand.
I don't think LIDAR scanners would follow Coast Gaurd boats in groups.
 

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They're checking backyards for junk vehicles. LOL.
 

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I don't think LIDAR scanners would follow Coast Gaurd boats in groups.
No, I was saying that LIDAR is what @RangerNumber3's link sounds like. That sounded like it was mapping a river. The green light the video shows is similar to what is seen when someone is using a laser scanner to make a 3D model of a room, or atleast that's what they show in some of the archeology and history documentaries.

I was merely notating that drones do get used for LIDAR scans, and that (or some sort of mapping) was one of my first thoughts when I heard about the Drone thing up there. I haven't followed this story any more than what's in this thread, but I agree that it isn't likely what is going on.
 

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They're checking backyards for junk vehicles. LOL.
Wouldn't put it past them. First Alcohol, then Weed, now the EPA after modified project vehicles.

Can you imagine what revenuers would have done with drones back during the prohibition era hunting for illegal stills?
 

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Wouldn't put it past them. First Alcohol, then Weed, now the EPA after modified project vehicles.

Can you imagine what revenuers would have done with drones back during the prohibition era hunting for illegal stills?
Ya, and I know those moonshiners would have shot them down and not gave a fawk.
 

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Ya, and I know those moonshiners would have shot them down and not gave a fawk.
No, you shoot them down you still get in trouble. Take your own drone and drop a small tree branch on the revenuers whirly bird from above... and everybody just makes fun of the revenuer pilot.
 

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We need Happy Gilmore to take one down with a golf ball.
 

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We need Happy Gilmore to take one down with a golf ball.
It's either gonna be pineys or Jackson hillbillies - we'll find out what they are soon enough
 

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No, you shoot them down you still get in trouble. Take your own drone and drop a small tree branch on the revenuers whirly bird from above... and everybody just makes fun of the revenuer pilot.
Or Jim could just fly it into a tree.
 

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It's either gonna be pineys or Jackson hillbillies - we'll find out what they are soon enough
Hey… oh wait, nevermind. I’m no longer living in Jackson… continue. You are correct.
 

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Great, the New Jersey hillbillies are expanding their range...
 

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Great, the New Jersey hillbillies are expanding their range...
You don’t know NJ that well… Piney’s are way more “hillbilly” than Jackson hillbillies can ever be.
 

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You don’t know NJ that well… Piney’s are way more “hillbilly” than Jackson hillbillies can ever be.
That isn't what the piney folks say...
 
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