Mine Detection and Defusing Activities Overview

Demining improves security along Turkey’s eastern border

Funds to go into research on detecting land-mines

EU Projekt

HOPE for detecting landmines

MIRICLE

MIRICLE

EU mine detection dogs for Ukraine

Rheinmetall

EU Research Magazine

‘The mine action community is extremely conservative, they are a little scared of changing tools,’ said Dr Yann Yvinec, scientist at Belgium’s RMA and project coordinator of TIRAMISU.

US Army

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT FOR MINE DETECTION

Conference

Does Competition Bring Out the Best in Robotic Innovation?

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Paper

University of Coimbra in Portugal

Robot Takes on Landmine Detection While Humans Stay Very Very Far Away

Portugal’s Coimbra University

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xju4rgRL4j0

ICRA – Challenge

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Search and Destroy: WPI Students Build a Robotic System to Find and Safely Detonate Landmines

Binghamton University, State University at New York

Researchers use drones, machine learning to detect dangerous ’butterfly’ landmines

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Paper

Applying Deep Learning to Automate UAV-Based Detection of Scatterable Landmines

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotoa, Colombia

Drone + Ground Penetrating Radar = Mine Detector?

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Paper

UAV for Landmine Detection Using SDR-Based GPR Technology

BBC report

How bees and drones team up to find landmines

UNICEF

UNICEF – working to keep children safe from landmines

The danger of landmines and unexploded ordnance is exacerbated for children, who are intrigued by their sometimes colourful and curious designs.

US Army

Land Mine Detection: DOD’s Research Program Needs a Comprehensive Evaluation Strategy

DUKE University

Landmine Detection | Applied Machine Learning Lab

Landmines and improvised explosive devices are a major source of casualties in both current and former conflict zones. These hidden killers remain in the ground for years after conflict has ceased, killing and maiming indiscriminately.

The University of Mississippi

National Center for Physical Acoustics | Laser Acoustic Detection of Buried Landmines

The detection and neutralization of landmines is an important task because of military, humanitarian, and environmental impacts. Metal detectors, the most commonly used devices for landmine detection, suffer from inability to detect plastic mines and differentiate a real mine from metallic debris.

TU Darmstadt

Land mine detection – Signal Processing Group

Surface laid mines are commonly encountered — troops often do not have time to adequately bury them and many mines are deployed from helicopters and airplanes. Unfortunately, in practice, these objects are seldom completely visible from above. Instead they are commonly partly occluded (covered). In some cases, mines are deliberately placed under bushes or in high grass. In other cases, surface laid mines may become partially occluded over time due to environmental changes, such as the movement of soil.

Ulm University

An Experimental Study on Airborne Landmine Detection Using a Circular Synthetic Aperture Radar

Many countries in the world are contaminated with landmines. Several thousand casualties occur every year. Although there are certain types of mines that can be detected from a safe stand-off position with tools, humanitarian demining is still mostly done by hand.

Landmine Detector

Landmines are prominent weapons designed to destroy or disable enemy targets which detonate by the movement of its target, pressure, sound, magnetism and vibration. More than a hundred million land mines are scattered around the world which remain hazardous for years even after conflict termination posing a significant threat to civilians and the economy. More Effective and sophisticated tools to detect, locate and deactivate landmines are urgently needed to make lands safer for humans to use.

Maastricht University

Towards a landmine-free world

Massoud and Mahmud Hassani grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan – literally in a minefield. Many years later, in the Netherlands, the brothers have developed Mine Kafon: a drone system for detecting landmines.

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Paper

A Comparative Study of Landmine Detection Techniques

Several countries suffer from the existence of millions of buried landmines in their territories. These landmines have indefinite life, and may still cause horrific personal injuries and economic dislocation for decades after a war has finished. Therefore, there is a growing demand by these countries for reliable landmine inspection systems

To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning – Scientific American

In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill

Center for Northeast Asian Studies

Landmine detection sensor – TU Research Profiles

ALIS is a hand-held dual sensor system, which consists of a metal detector and a ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The most unique feature of ALIS is its visualiza- tion function of the metal detector and GPR.

University of Georgia

Detection of landmine-like targets using data collected by unmanned aerial systems

Scatterable landmines are a recent warfare technology that can be dispersed aerially and quickly render land useless to local populations. This research aims to develop methods for civilian landmine detection and suspected area reduction using readily available unmanned aerial systems (UAS), simulation landmines and very high spatial resolution orthomosaics derived using Structure from Motion from multiple flight dates.

Hebrew University

This Bacteria Can Find a Landmine

The main rate-limiting factor holding back global demining efforts is not the actual removal of buried landmines,” researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in Microbial Biotechnology last October, “but rather pinpointing their exact locations.”

University of Bath

New 3-D camera technology to uncover hidden landmines

I set up Find A Better Way to search for more effective technology to detect landmines and explosive remnants of war after witnessing first-hand the devastation these can cause to individuals and communities. Our partnership with the University of Bath will help us to make significant progress with our aim to deliver significant improvements in demining detection capability to ultimately negate the effects landmines and explosive remnants of war pose across the globe

DLR

Faster detection of landmines using radar

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has developed a radar-based method, ‘TIRAMI-SAR’, that will allow for the quick, safe and cost-effective detection of landmines.

Columbia University

Harnessing drones, geophysics and artificial intelligence to root out land mines

Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals; the kind that kill and maim thousands of people every year. Baur and colleagues are trying to show that drone-born geophysical sensors already used in fields such as exploration geology, volcanology and archaeology may be applied to more efficiently spot and eliminate these deadly hazards

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Architecture

Humanitarian Demining – UAV-BASED DETECTION OF LAND MINES

Mine Action aims to reduce the social, economic and environmental impacts
of mines and UXO (unexploded ordnance) so that people in the affected
regions can live safely again, resulting in an economic, social and health-
positive development.

Binghamton University

Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Detection and identification of MECs largely relies on the geophysical principles of magnetometry and electromagnetic-induction (EMI), which makes non-magnetic plastic MECs particularly difficult to detect and extremely dangerous to clear. In a recent study we demonstrated the potential of time-lapse thermal-imaging technology to detect unique thermal signatures associated with plastic MECs.

DraganflyInc.

Draganfly Develops Drone Based Solution for Landmine Detection

Binghamton University

“It’s a real challenge to detect plastic-bodied landmines,” explains Dr. Tim de Smet of Binghamton University. “These mines contain almost no metal, so standard detection methods don’t work.”

School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Air Drones for Explosive Landmines Detection

Explosive landmines have cost the lives of hundreds in several countries. This paper presents a field report of a low cost unmanned aerial vehicle -ARdrone 2.0- used as a complemented tool for landmine visual detection in rural scenarios.

National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary

LANDMINE DETECTION WITH DRONES

The opposing forces often laid antitank or antipersonnel minefields during
wars and other armed conflicts. However, countries those ratified the Ottawa Treaty
had abandoned using antipersonnel landmines in the future, the mines laid earlier
are still can be found in huge numbers buried under the soil and they cause serious
injuries to several people. Safe detection of mines, other dangerous explosive
devices and the precise determination of their location sometimes require specific
equipment. The authors introduce certain aerial vehicles and some of their special
detection devices those can be used for locating landmines from the air.

Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD)

Deploying Drones for Spatial Modeling of Displaced
Landmines in Bosnia Herzegovina

Heavy floods and landslides in Bosnia Herzegovina shifted minefields and explosive
remnants of war (ERW) into inhabited areas. The Belgian Royal Military Academy (RMA)
team worked with the Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Centre (BHMAC) to use
drone images that would help model the potential locations of some of the many dis–
placed ERWs and mines. These models then were used to narrow down the search
radius for demining teams.

 Study

PROOF: How Small Drones Can Find Buried
Landmines in the Desert using Airborne
IR Thermography

Hypotheses and speculation have circulated for at least three
decades regarding how IR thermography could be viable as a
technique for locating buried landmines in arid environments

DETECTING PFM-1 LANDMINES

Submissions from 2022

Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship

segmenteverygrain

Edit Anything by Segment-Anything

IEA: Image Editing Anything

Using stable diffusion and segmentation anything models for image editing.

Generally, given a textual prompt or cliked region, SAM generated the masked region for source image. Then, we use CLIP model to select the region, which can be finally used to generate the target edited image with stable diffusion.

Segment Anything for Stable Diffusion WebUI

Segment Anything Labelling Tool (SALT)

OpenMMLab PlayGround: Semi-Automated Annotation with Label-Studio and SAM

AnyLabeling

Effortless data labeling with AI support from YOLO and Segment Anything!

AnyLabeling = LabelImg + Labelme + Improved UI + Auto-labeling

Demining Research Community

Sons of Liberty International

GANs for Synthetic Data Generation

A Synthetic Image Dataset Generated with Stable Diffusion