Antipersonnel mine detection system
Antipersonnel mine detection system
More than 100 million land mines are buried in more than 80 countries. In the past two years, landmines still affect nearly 30% of countries and have caused an average of 21,000 casualties per year (2010-16). The impact of landmines affects many components of the global biosphere, leading to environmental degradation in the forms of soil degradation, deforestation, contamination of water resources with heavy metals and the alteration of populations of entire species to the degrade habitats and alter food chains. In addition, land mines are generally placed near sanitation facilities, which affects the ability to preserve human health.
Governments and organizations have a hard time accumulating comprehensive data because the regions most affected by landmines are generally poor and inaccessible areas, some of which are still in the midst of wars. They do not have a precise number of landmines planted in their countries. Many armies do not create maps of their minefields, and most maps are often inaccurate.
Our proposal aims, with the hyperspectral and GIS technological tools that we have already developed, to go one step further in solving this great global problem.
The system
Landmine removal techniques have continued in basically the same way since the 1960s. Traditional practices are expensive, dangerous, and ineffective. However, settlement costs remain high, as they include administration, training, equipment, communications, medical assistance, accident evacuation, insurance, and workers' compensation. Beyond monetary costs, mine clearance is a slow and dangerous process because of the precision it requires. The LendMineSensor is an intelligent system designed to be used with drones, although it can also be mounted on ground robots and in fixed operations, such as inspection vehicles. The explosives detection system uses a dynamic laser that allows the detection of explosives and other dangerous materials (gas, liquid, dust or mass) in an operating radius of up to 5 km. Unlike the companies that currently work in demining, our project offers the following characteristics:
● 60% reduction in the time of geolocation of mines compared to conventional methods. The drones flight plans allow obtaining and populating the database in real time, with the position of the mines, which is the main objective of the project.
● Reduction of demining costs by 40%.
● Allows an intelligent analysis system of the environment movement control system against people in a certain territory.
● It guarantees the safety of the demining equipment eliminating the risks of explosion, since prior to field work the system allows the mines to be located in the territory.
● Generate a study on the environmental impact of landmines and their effects, alterations and interruptions that can take place in a spatial and temporal scheme differentiated from an original location of a landmine. We will work with the Copernicus & Galileo satellites of the European Union to create a worldwide database.
● To integrate the data, Lendel develops a GNU GPL development software based on gvSIG for the management of LiDAR data that allows access, visualization, analysis and quality control of the original LiDAR data, being able to display large volumes of data at the same time. original LiDAR (irregular point cloud in LAS and BIN format) overlaid with other geographic data.
● It stands out in its geoprocessing instruments, being a perfect tool to perform topology or work with networks. It offers great raster capacity, 3D capabilities, customization for each client, flexible interface, interoperability, database connection, in particular PostgreSQL and PostGIS (vector and raster), raster capacity and integration with GRASS, excellent performance with great volumes of information, automation of analysis tasks through scripting.
The processing of all the data allows the end customer to have the information in their system in a very short period of time, taking into account that every 2000 km2 they obtain their final report in 3 days.
System novelty
Lendel Media provides a drone-based technology that enables mine position detection with hyperspectral IR sensors. The drones flight plans allow obtaining and populating the database, with the position of the mines, which is the main objective of the project. We generate a management system that allows analyzing other layers of information such as population, land use, aerial images, etc. through the use of GIS. Furthermore, the system must be able to identify and delimit minefields, and manage the actions carried out, for the control, monitoring and reporting of the current status. The Mine Action system wants to achieve a surveillance system almost in real time. LendMineSensor is a detection sensor based on advanced spectrometric techniques including fluorescence, laser-induced breadown spectroscopy (LIBS), and Raman that enables real-time detection of explosives and antipersonnel mines that once detected separation in their specific enclave with 99.9% accuracy while creating an environmental GIS base. The system aims to be effective in the first phase of demining, the most expensive of the process, since it allows mines to position themselves so that cleaning teams have accurate information to carry out their work, save costs and obtain security.