Surveillance Drone for Landmine Detection

Mine detection using a surveillance drone is a modern conceptual prototype, which has been designed to detect landmines. Landmines were primarily used to create defensive and tactical barriers during the Second World War. They are still very much employed in large quantities in countries such as Afghanistan, Korea. A lot of these land mines still go undetected, increasing the death rate and creating havoc on the surroundings. The prototype developed helps us to detect a landmine using a flying drone. The prototype has a quad copter which has a mine detector mounted on it. This utilizes two different modes of detection, which are an IR camera and a metal detector. These are extensively used in aiding this whole operation. The location of the mine can be traced back by the GPS and the detected location can be transmitted using the GSM module. There is a lot of untapped potential and scope of improvement for this prototype in the future. In this paper, we have successfully worked on a mine detector that performs functions of vested interest towards the military and commercial organizations.