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"Detectives said they were tipped off about lots of people visiting the unit throughout the day and a police drone picked up a lot of heat coming from the build
by josefresco 5y ago
"Detectives said they were tipped off about lots of people visiting the unit throughout the day and a police drone picked up a lot of heat coming from the building."
Does that imply a drone with infrared capabilities?
- philjohn 5y agoYes - they also have IR cameras on police helicopters and use this to identify likely cannabis farms fairly regularly in the UK.
- 542458 5y agoThey’re also useful for search&rescue as well as finding people who are trying hide in foliage, but yeah.
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- andylynch 5y agoPossibly. But it could also be something as simple as a snow free roof when the neighbourhood is covered. Or one unusually dry after rain.
- sschueller 5y agoDJI sells a FLIR addon for their drones. [1] The mavic 2 enterprise is also available with a FLIR camera. [2] [1] https://www.dji.com/ch/zenmuse-xt https://www.dji.com/ch/zenmuse-xt [2] https://www.dji.com/ch/mavic-2-enterprise https://www.dji.com/ch/mavic-2-enterprise
- deepserket 5y agoyes, ir cameras are widely used in helicopters, eg. https://youtu.be/Q481RMKwpCY?t=45 https://youtu.be/Q481RMKwpCY?t=45 it's a no brainer to mount them on drones too
- tsukikage 5y ago...one has to wonder also why they needed to keep visiting the place once they set everything up.
- deepserket 5y agoyeah, and lots of people... i don't know
- bserge 5y agoShowing off to everyone at the pub, obviously. That farm was apparently barely profitable even with free electricity heh
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoMaybe they were still setting up?
- piva00 5y agoYup, that's been pretty commonplace for a few years, I believe. Dutch police has been using drones for more than a decade, IR capabilities included for tracking people smuggling and cannabis farms indoors. I'd believe that most of the police forces in the EU already have some of those, can't see a reason why they wouldn't, it provides you almost the same surveillance capacity as a helicopter without all the expensive equipment and pilot training.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoDrones with thermal cameras (usually for firefighting, search-and-rescue and electrical inspection) have been around for a little while.