Comments on: Flying Cameraman Ousts the Old-Time Prospector (Jan, 1933) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/05/04/flying-cameraman-ousts-the-old-time-prospector/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Toronto http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/05/04/flying-cameraman-ousts-the-old-time-prospector/comment-page-1/#comment-1067801 Toronto Tue, 05 May 2009 15:20:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7688#comment-1067801 The aerocartograph shown is anything but automatic. An experienced operator might be able to use one 20 minutes out of an hour - the eyestrain is overwhelming otherwise. That said, I was involved in a conceptual project in the 80's that involved using LANDSAT IV images and sofeware to 'strip away' vegetation, etc, and look for certain patterns of geography. A guy in a Jeep (no burros were available) "trained" the system to find spots with a high likelyhood of having heavy and heavyish metals (gold, tin, uranium, etc.) The aerocartograph shown is anything but automatic. An experienced operator might be able to use one 20 minutes out of an hour – the eyestrain is overwhelming otherwise.

That said, I was involved in a conceptual project in the 80′s that involved using LANDSAT IV images and sofeware to ‘strip away’ vegetation, etc, and look for certain patterns of geography. A guy in a Jeep (no burros were available) “trained” the system to find spots with a high likelyhood of having heavy and heavyish metals (gold, tin, uranium, etc.)

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