Can a personal drone be used to find buried gold?

[barnhse]

Can a personal drone be used to find buried gold?

I have tried to search a target area (about a square mile) for a couple of years to no avail.
My big problem is that the search area is a thicket.
Thorny vines everywhere.
Even the trees have thorns.
I have to fight for every step in this thicket.
Very uncool.

So, is there any probable way that a personal drone can use some technology to find the gold?
Then I can fly over the trees instead of fighting for every step.

The target is about a foot square, buried 3 or 4 feet down.
It is gold coins in two leather saddle bags (the saddle bags probably have rotted away by now).

Trees are 30 (some may be 40) feet high.

Just a wish and probably impossible (unless you are the NSA or NASA).
But I thought I would ask.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

No.

 

[1637]

look at lidar mapping it takes away all the trees and bushes.so you can just see the ground.i dont know to much about it ,but ive seen it used on tv and its cool.
check it out,good luck brad

 

[1637]

its does not see gold, just lets you see the ground better

 

[Peyton Manning]

only if you already know where the gold is

 

[barnhse]

only if you already know where the gold is

Okay.....Just a wish and probably impossible (unless you are the NSA or NASA).
But I thought I would ask.

Thanks guys!

 

[RTR]

I bet you could see it with a Thermal Imagining camera on that drone. Fly over the area at daybreak.Fly over the same area at sunset.And compare the two....Sunlight hitting the Gold all day long will totally stand out good luck

Scratch that.Just saw you said 3-4 feet down

 

[barnhse]

I bet you could see it with a Thermal Imagining camera on that drone. Fly over the area at daybreak.Fly over the same area at sunset.And compare the two....Sunlight hitting the Gold all day long will totally stand out good luck

Scratch that.Just saw you said 3-4 feet down

Hi RTR,

Well, this IS Texas.
80 degrees at dawn, and 100 degrees during the day (in the shade).

Would the buried gold cool down slower than the surrounding dirt (or faster)?
Would the dirt at the surface be hotter (or cooler)?

Or is this a simply a lost cause, due to the thicket shade?

Grasping at straws....

 

[RTR]

Hi RTR,

Well, this IS Texas.
80 degrees at dawn, and 100 degrees during the day (in the shade).

Would the buried gold cool down slower than the surrounding dirt (or faster)?
Would the dirt at the surface be hotter (or cooler)?

Or is this a simply a lost cause, due to the thicket shade?

Grasping at straws....

I dont think it will do any good on a target 3-4 deep.But,it might find other useful clues in your search area.Tons of info on them on Utube
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[RTR]

Give it time. And this will be small enough for a drone https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=83324

 

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