After the Flood: microdrone is finding land mines

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Airborne support in the search for survivors and land mines: in the wake of a natural disaster in Serbia/Bosnia and Herzegovina, rescue teams have been using German-made drones.

This past May, flooding and landslides left many people homeless, blocked access to large areas, and brought wartime landmines to the surface.

The potentially life-threatening hazards to which the populace is exposed continued long after the storms abated. The EU’s ICARUS and TIRAMISU development projects are providing support for the search for survivors and land mines. And now the UN, too, is again using airborne support.

“We’ve conducted around 20 flights over a two week period, either manually or using automatic waypoints,” notes Haris Balta. RMA development engineers carried out the mission on-site. “We’ve provided the other rescue teams with damage reports, detailed maps and pictures of the disaster region – the goal being to locate the countless landmines left over from the civil war.”

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According to sUAS md4-1000 Quadrocopters developed by Germany-based microdrones GmbH are being used by the Belgian Royal Military Academy (RMA) in the disaster area.