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The aerial use of an infrared camera in a police search for the body of a missing person in New Zealand.
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An infrared camera operating in the spectral range of 2μm–5·6μm was fitted into a Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter and used in a police search for the body of a missing hitchhiker, demonstrating that the aerial use of the infrared camera and equipment can locate points of interest unnoticed by ground searchers and thus decrease the ground search area.Abstract:
An infrared camera operating in the spectral range of 2μm–5·6μm was fitted into a Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter and used to assist in a police search for the body of a missing hitchhiker. Although unsuccessful in its main purpose, it was well demonstrated that the aerial use of the infrared camera and equipment can locate points of interest unnoticed by ground searchers and thus decrease the ground search area. Subsequent tests revealed that the body of a dead animal could easily be detected seventeen days after burial.read more
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