Oklahoma Deadly Land Mines Employed By Drones & Machine Learning Equipment

September 08, 2022 By Monica Green

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In the dangerous mining fields of Oklahoma, researchers are using an advanced drone and machine learning tech to locate deadly munitions built to injure and kill intruders. Jasper Baur and Gabriel Steinberg, co-founders of the Demining Research Community, have been working in the Oklahoma land mines for two weeks to set up mining grids and munitions to train a drone-based, machine-learning-equipped mine detection system. The system helps them locate and identify hazardous explosives, replacing humans who do dangerous work. Drones

The researchers wander on the barren mining fields situated on the outskirts of Pawnee, Okla, facing the warm winds, while examining the mining field. Then, a young man assisting them opens a weighty Pelican case full of explosives. He says, "These are inert, but we're lucky to be working at a range that has so many different kinds of munitions." The range that the young man mentioned is an explosive-ordnance-disposal field laboratory that the Oklahoma State University and the researchers led by Baur and Steinberg maintain. In addition, the Demining Research Community is a nonprofit organization that works towards combining academic research and humanitarian demining efforts. Drones

According to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission's Abandoned Mine Land Program, which has been observing and tracking Oklahoma's abandoned mine lands since 1972, said that 26 people have died on the mine lands. They aim to secure lives, mend mine-scarred land, and improve the environment. The state has over 70,000 acres of abandoned coal mines, on the surface and underground, with strip mines on the top. Claremore landowners Debbie and Kevin Loudermilk are aware of the land's dangers. The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor reports say that in 2020, land mines killed or maimed a minimum of 7,073 people in 54 countries and locations. Several nonprofit organizations are working towards pulling out these old munitions. However, they only have a fraction of the military resources used to deploy the dangerous explosives across the fields. Steinberg found the "PFM-1 butterfly mine," the Soviet Union developed and deployed during its war with Afghanistan. Evidence proves that Russia has currently deployed the same mines in Ukraine. Drones

The key objective of placing mines and explosive cluster munitions is to turn down access to the enemy's troops and vehicles on those roads and fields. However, the munitions don't "switch off" at the end of a war and remain active, risking human lives for decades and even outliving the countries that installed them. Estimates say millions of active mines and munitions are dispersed across many countries. Baur and his colleagues aim to provide their drone-detection system to demining organizations worldwide to help them in attempts to make the countries safe and free of mines post-conflict. Drones n Deadly Land Mines

There is an increasing need for demining tools and techs as countries continue deploying drones and munitions in Ukraine and other states.

By Monica Green

I am specialised in latest tech and tech discoveries.

Oklahoma Deadly Land Mines Employed By Drones & Machine Learning Equipment

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