This
paper explains that most countries outside North America classify
aerial platforms as being electronic
devices, basically set-top and other types of devices, primarily for use in enhancing television reception. The author points out that the more sophisticated devices are used at remote production sites where top-notch quality
transmission back to a central location via satellite is required; these aerial devices can be either land-based, as in a
stationary studio application, or carried aloft via aircraft, even in outer space to deliver aerial amplifications. The paper relates other uses and methods of delivery are shipboard where they are used for search and rescue types of operations, as in air
crashes at sea; the most frequent application is "hired out" aerial platforms used by production companies for movies and similar projects.