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Caving Guru wrote:I believe that it is possible to use certain high tech techniques to find caves and see how large their passages are such as a Tamarisk 320 Infrared Imaging Camera that was supposedly used to discover a cave in West Virginia
GroundquestMSA wrote:Caving Guru wrote:I believe that it is possible to use certain high tech techniques to find caves and see how large their passages are such as a Tamarisk 320 Infrared Imaging Camera that was supposedly used to discover a cave in West Virginia
Infrared cameras haven't been used to see how large passages are, only to find warm spots. The dig site for Tamarisk was found by Greg Springer and Neha Gupta using an IR camera on a winter night. I believe Neha's video about the project is out there on the internet somewhere. To find out how big the cave was, it had to be dug open, and explored, and my brother and I got to help Ed Saugstad do so.
Caving Guru wrote:That is awesome that you found a cave with a 29 foot tall chamber by drilling! That is pretty cool too that you found 2 frogs with the camera that you ran down. And to answer your question, I believe that the only way to find out how much total passage the cave has is to explore the cave but I believe that it is possible to use certain high tech techniques to find caves and see how large their passages are such as a Tamarisk 320 Infrared Imaging Camera that was supposedly used to discover a cave in West Virginia and several other techniques.
Another technique that is possible, I believe, to measure the dimensions of your cave is by using radar/radio waves which was used to measure the dimensions of the world's largest canyon in Greenland which was announced to the public last year. Through many years of work, these scientists had measured the dimensions of this immense canyon at 460 miles long, 6 miles wide, and the whole canyon being over 1 mile under the ice.
Another type of infrared camera (that I just found browsing the internet) that is used for things such as cave detection is the FLIR E4 IR Camera which costs about $1,000 new.
Another idea, that I just thought of, is that you could look for sink holes in the area and start digging which might require less digging than digging down to the 29 foot tall chamber making it large enough for a person to fit through.
It would probably be expensive to buy any of the infrared or radar devices to measure your cave. Your drilling technique seems like a good idea to measure the height of passages in this cave, though, that never even crossed my mind as a technique that could be used to measure the height of a cave passage.
johnf93 wrote:Colt45,
Great name by the way. You could contact the folks at Texas Speleo Survey and mention that you found a cave on your property, with its GPS Coordinates, and they might be able to tell you if it part of a known cave. If its not, what do you plan on naming it?
John
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