So, if you do decide to pick up a thermal scope head down and help our friends in the south solve their pest problem!
If hunters can’t solve the hog problem, southern states may have to resort to poisoning the pigs’ food supply, which could have serious environmental consequences. Many states have lifted all hunting restrictions so you can kill as many as you want, whenever you want, with whatever you want.
They’re commonly used in southern states like Texas by hunters attempting to solve “The Plague of the Pigs” where invasive hog species are wreaking havoc and causing millions of dollars in damage annually.
You can find videos of thermal optics in action all over YouTube. Don’t get me wrong they’re still pretty expensive, but when shopping for thermals you have to utilize the “buy once cry once” mentality. The good news is thermal scope prices have dropped a lot. Looking down at my PVS-14 night vision that was held together with duct tape, I was reminded that the Marine Corps is broke and realized I was never going to be issued one. I was pretty excited, thinking that someday I might get issued one, but then he told me the optic costs around 40 grand. Looking through the scope, I couldn’t believe how easy it was to pick out the steel targets which were still hot from the high daytime temperatures of the Mojave desert. It was a PAS-13 thermal weapon sight passed to me by my platoon commander. I remember the first time I got to use a thermal scope. Luckily for you, whether you’re putting food on the table or liberating a foreign country in turmoil, there is a modern tool that can basically turn you into the terminator and keep you plinking 24 hours a day, light or dark. They have learned to use their natural night vision and the cover of darkness to evade predators, search for food, and avoid high daytime temperatures. Examples of the data collected, advantages and disadvantages of utilizing the thermal airborne system, video format and compression artifacts, and field verifications will be shown.Hunting furry critters and putting down bad guys is all good and fun for roughly 12 hours a day.įor the other time, after the sun goes down, those critters naturally have the upper hand.
Flir ultra 8500 manual verification#
The thermal signatures were recorded on digital media and frames containing potential UXO (both targets and false alarms) will be selected for field verification by Shaw Environmental, Inc. The flight profiles were collected at approximately 700 feet above ground level at an approximate ground speed of 100 knots in both contour following and parallel transects depending on the terrain. The airborne missions were scheduled to maximize the thermal separation between the UXO and the natural surroundings based on diurnal data collections. The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center team flew a low cost airborne surveillance system (Ultra 8500 FW) on a single engine fixed‐wing aircraft over the area of interest. The area of interest is located on the Isleta Pueblo. The work was performed in partnership with multiple US Army Corps of Engineers agencies and the Isleta Pueblo.
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using a commercially available thermal infra‐red surveillance system for detecting large surface munitions as part of an UXO Wide Area Assessment.