Laos is currently the country with the most landmines,
will you help us rising up to this challenge ?
Welcome !
Before joining us on this wonderful enterprise, here's a small presentation:
Current mine clearing techniques are excruciatingly slow and dangerous. Demining teams are crisscrossing the lao countryside by foot and with metal detectors, looking for cluster submunitions. These metallic spheres filled with explosives were dropped by plane and plague the country since the Vietnam war.
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Besides requiring that the minesweepers risk their lives, terrestrial mine removing is slowed down by the dense laotian vegetation.
Aerial detection: a realistic performance
Ground demining: a slow and dangerous process
Project LAO: conceiving world's first high-speed fixed-wing drone detecting cluster munitions from a height of several meters
Project LAO: conceiving world's first high-speed fixed-wing drone detecting cluster munitions from a height of several meters
This invisible foe maims or kills over 300 victims yearly in Laos alone, and therefore must be addressed soon. And Laotians are not alone in their plight !
Despite having been forbidden in 2010 by the Convention of Oslo, cluster munitions remain used in recent conflicts in Syria, Yemen, the Ukraine, Lybia and Sudan.
A relevant issue
We studied how realistic it is to detect submunitions from the sky with a magnetometer-equipped drone.
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Results are definitive: current technologies allow to detect these objects several meters from the ground! After having realized a first terrestrial prototype, which successfully detected submunitions from a 10' height, we now look towards testing our system in flight. This is where we need your support!
Help us build a world without submunitions !
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humanitarian demining
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