Residents near Sterling may notice a low flying aircraft beginning tomorrow.
That plane will be performing an airborne geophysical survey according to Project Manager Amanda Heydorn with the Canadian geoscience company CGG.
Heydorn: “The area stretches between the Homer and Sterling general vicinities that we will be working in and it is an aircraft that will be flying 500 feet above the ground and it will be flying a grid pattern. So basically they will fly a planned line in one direction and they’ll turn around and fly back in the other direction.”
Equipment in the aircraft will be taking passive measurements of the ground and that data will be used for subsurface mapping.
Heydorn said the specific project the mapping will be used for is confidential.
The aircraft activity is expected to take around a month depending on weather.
