Harnessing Drones, Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence to Root out Land Mines

Sep 21, 2021 | Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School
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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-borne 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.