Next-generation demining with AI and drones

ADVANCED SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS POWER NEXT-GEN SOLUTIONS FOR AUTOMATING THREAT DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION

According to Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor¹, a significant portion of the globe is contaminated by land mines, as this infographic demonstrates. The explosive remains of war and landmines both present a significant and ongoing threat to civilians. These weapons can be found on roads, footpaths, farms, forests, deserts, borders, in and around homes and schools, and other places where people go about their daily lives. They deny access to food and water and hinder the delivery of humanitarian aid.

THE NEED FOR NEXT-GEN MINE DETECTION

Artificial intelligence and drones can be useful tools in the de-mining process in both active conflicts zones such as Ukraine or in post-combat areas such as Afghanistan, Kuwait, or Bosnia & Herzegovina. According to recent data from Statista and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition, the threat of anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance is present in over 60 countries across Africa, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia, and throughout mainland China and Russia. These explosive devices expose millions of civilians to life-threatening injuries and death on a daily basis (7,000+ casualties per year).

The global scope and scale of the issue confirms the inadequacy of today’s manual demining process as being slow, labor-intensive, and dangerous. That is why Safe Pro AI believes there is a clear need for innovative and practical ways to increase the efficiency and safety of demining utilizing drones and AI/machine learning technology.

Safe Pro AI’s award-winning artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and computer vision capabilities enable the rapid, automated processing of aerial and ground-based imagery making it an ideal solution for a number of applications including demining and in law enforcement and security. The technology currently is being applied to the identification, classification, and clearance of landmines. Built with an extensive proprietary landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) dataset, Safe Pro AI can rapidly detect threats from aerial imagery, relaying precise GPS location and actionable reporting information to decision makers and ground personnel, greatly increasing the scale and efficacy of remediation efforts. Through the combination of AI, ML, and drone technologies, Safe Pro’s new demining solutions directly address the limitations of current mine/UXO clearance methodologies which can be slow, expensive, and dangerous.

SAFE PRO AI DISRUPTIVE MODERNIZED MINE DETECTION

Step 1:

High Altitude large area survey with powerful AI & ML from high resolution aerial imagery to autonomously locate, label, and GPS tag.

Step 2:

Low altitude drones armed with GPS data hunt mines down and gather high resolution 3D lidar imagery, precise location tag.

Step 3:

Generate analytical reports for decision makers to analyse safe and danger zones and prioritize missions, resources and EOD teams.

APPLICATIONS

Next-gen mine detection

Safe Pro AI’s software brings artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision capabilities that enable the rapid, automated processing of aerial and ground-based imagery in real-time to detect landmines and unexploded ordnance.

Infrastructure inspection

Providing detailed visual analysis of facilities, power and telecommunications infrastructure and equipment through AI and machine learning-enhanced video processing.

Security and incident response

AI-based processing of aerial imagery of can rapidly detect, locate and identify objects of interest on the ground including weapons, contraband, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

INITIAL APPLICATION: NEXT-GEN MINE DETECTION

Utilizing a variety of off-the-shelf consumer and commercial drones equipped with an array of sensors including optical/thermal infrared/multispectral, our AI model software can now detect 50+ types of mines and UXO with over 80% accuracy including grenades, projectiles, and anti-personnel mines.

Safe Pro AI has developed an AI-assisted drone survey method that quickly and easily provides field operators with maps and locations of 80-90% of the present surface-lain landmines and UXO, enabling them to plan safer and more efficient clearance operations.

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

Safe Pro AI’s software brings artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision capabilities that enable the rapid, automated processing of aerial and ground-based imagery in real-time to detect threats including:

• • Landmines, unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
  • Ability to detect items of interest including contraband or weapons

Expanded AI model capabilities to detect 50+ types of mines and UXO with over 80% accuracy:

• • Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines
  • Projectiles
  • Cluster munitions
  • Grenades

Extensive Proprietary Landmine & UXO Dataset:

• • Compiling the world’s largest aerial imagery database of mines and UXO to detect any type of munition
  • Enabling AI to detect mines in visual, thermal, and multispectral imagery

Watch how drones and machine learning help to detect land mines

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ABOUT SAFE PRO AI

Safe Pro AI (a Safe Pro Group Inc. company) was founded in 2020 following years of research into the utilization of drones and AI (artificial intelligence) to automate the detection of landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other explosive threats.Safe Pro AI’s machine learning and vision-based processing capabilities are being leveraged with Safe Pro Group’s drone operational expertise to deliver a powerful ‘Next-Gen’ approach to situational awareness.

This new capability is also synergistic with other Safe Pro Group portfolio solutions, for example, more effectively guiding and aiding ground personnel equipped with our state-of-the-art ballistic protection products in completing their life-saving security missions or in accelerating the drone-based analysis of critical infrastructure. For more information, please visit: www.SafeProGroup.com and www.SafeProAi.com Contact: info@safeprogroup.com

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Download PDF: 54-57 Safe Pro Group – COUNTER-IED REPORT, Spring-Summer 2023

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Counter-IED Report Spring/Summer 2023