Landmine Detecting Drone

[Cleggy]

I saw Massoud Hassani on the internet and he has made a landmine detecting drone which can fly to a grid pattern If in the future a metal detecting company collaborated with him to make a metal detecting drone then you could site back and wait as the drone flies up and down the field GPS marking the targets. You could cover a field in hours rather than weeks!




I would call it the ‘Hoard Hunter’
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massoudhassani/mine-kafon-drone?token=4a3c87bf

 

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[hvacker]

I would have a few questions one in particular. A ton of land mines are made in China with almost NO metal involved. I fail to see how a metal detector from any distance except right on top of a target would detect anything.
I wouldn't be surprised if a MD coil followed similar devices where the coils strength diminishes to the square of distance. But hey, I'm just a Grunt.
Maybe someone with mine detecting experience could add to this.

I once played with the idea of a land mine with a limited life. Military use of mines is often to insure escape during retreat and don't need to be armed forever. There are exceptions but my idea was during the arming process the mine would break a beaker or tube of an acid formulated to destroy the firing mechanism over a given time. Seems the UN would welcome something that disarms itself.

I heard someone was actively working on a similar idea. Don't know anymore than that.

 

[jeff of pa]

that must be a powerful drone.

that may work for military ?
because their GPS points are probably Spot on or Close.

7.8 meter = 25.5906 feet
2.168 meter = 7.11286089 feet

Several Targets in a Short area may Overlap

The U.S. government is committed to providing GPS to the civilian community at the performance levels specified in the GPS Standard Positioning Service (SPS) Performance Standard. For example, the GPS signal in space will provide a "worst case" pseudorange accuracy of 7.8 meters at a 95% confidence level. (This is not the same as user accuracy; pseudorange is the distance from a GPS satellite to a receiver.)

The actual accuracy users attain depends on factors outside the government's control, including atmospheric effects, sky blockage, and receiver quality. Real-world data from the FAA show their high-quality GPS SPS receivers attaining better than 2.168 meter horizontal accuracy, 95% of the time.

may be good to suggest they are there.
just saying. I wouldn't want to go on that info alone.
to find a path through a land mine field

GPS.gov: GPS Accuracy

 

[Cleggy]

I don't care that it was made to look for Landmines!

I use a 15 inch coil because it can see deeper over long grass and Mr Hassani said it can deep search 5m into the ground.