Flying Metal Detectors? Navy Tests New Unmanned Mine-Detection System
Story Number: NNS170602-04Release Date: 6/2/2017 7:29:00 AM
By Warren Duffie Jr., Office of Naval Research
ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) -- During a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich and Dr. Cory Stephanson unveiled a new way to detect buried and submerged mines.
Oelrich, a scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock's Combatant Craft Division, and Stephanson, president and chief executive officer of Broadband Discovery Systems (BDS), stared at an Android tablet showing search data from an unmanned aerial drone they had just flown. The device's screen glowed as a green fluorescent map appeared, splashed with red clusters of varying sizes and shapes.
"See that large cluster?" asked Stephanson. "That's the dummy mine we buried. The smaller blotches near it are construction rebar we found nearby. The drone detected and localized these items quickly and accurately, which would be extremely valuable in a real combat scenario."
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