A detailed survey and future directions of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) with potential applications

N Elmeseiry, N Alshaer, T Ismail - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained
widespread interest in civilian and military applications, which has led to the development of …

Intelligent, Automated, Rapid, and Safe Landmine, Improvised Explosive Device and Unexploded Ordnance Detection Using Maggy

K Kuru, A Sujit, D Ansell, JM Pinder, D Jones… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting and clearing legacy landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), and
Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) using a force made up of humans or animals is extremely …

UAV thermal imaging for unexploded ordnance detection by using deep learning

M Bajić Jr, B Potočnik - Remote sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
A few promising solutions for thermal imaging Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection were
proposed after the start of the military conflict in Ukraine in 2014. At the same time, most of …

Application of a drone magnetometer system to military mine detection in the demilitarized zone

LS Yoo, JH Lee, YK Lee, SK Jung, Y Choi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
We propose a magnetometer system fitted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone)
and a data-processing method for detecting metal antipersonnel landmines (M16) in the …

Applying deep learning to automate UAV-based detection of scatterable landmines

J Baur, G Steinberg, A Nikulin, K Chiu, TS de Smet - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in unmanned-aerial-vehicle-(UAV-) based remote sensing utilizing
lightweight multispectral and thermal infrared sensors allow for rapid wide-area landmine …

Joint Fusion and Detection via Deep Learning in UAV-Borne Multispectral Sensing of Scatterable Landmine

Z Qiu, H Guo, J Hu, H Jiang, C Luo - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Compared with traditional mine detection methods, UAV-based measures are more suitable
for the rapid detection of large areas of scatterable landmines, and a multispectral fusion …

Fast and accurate object detection in remote sensing images based on lightweight deep neural network

L Lang, K Xu, Q Zhang, D Wang - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Deep learning-based object detection in remote sensing images is an important yet
challenging task due to a series of difficulties, such as complex geometry scene, dense …

Vision-based remote sensing imagery datasets from benkovac landmine test site using an autonomous drone for detecting landmine locations

K Kuru, D Ansell - IEEE Data Port, 2023 - clok.uclan.ac.uk
Mapping millions of buried landmines rapidly and removing them cost-effectively is
supremely important to avoid their potential risks and ease this labour-intensive task …

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Surface Landmines Using Optical Imaging

E Vivoli, M Bertini, L Capineri - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a pioneering study in the application of real-time surface landmine
detection using a combination of robotics and deep learning. We introduce a novel system …

Modeling and simulation of very high spatial resolution UXOs and landmines in a hyperspectral scene for UAV survey

M Bajić Jr, M Bajić - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents methods for the modeling and simulation of explosive target placement
in terrain spectral images (ie, real hyperspectral 90-channel VNIR data), considering …