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Drones can help these days

• lukan 7mo ago
  Can drones sniff explosives? I think that would be very expensive, they can have metal detectors, and mark suspicious sites for someone (or something, like a different digging drone) else to check. But rats can sniff explosives and do so succesfully. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa
  • ultratalk 7mo ago
    > He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.
    • lukan 7mo ago
      I don't know how it works for rats, but I assume it is like with dogs. If you have already a trained dog, you make the same exercises with the trained and the untrained dog, so the untrained dog can just watch what the trained dog does and imitate it.
      • widforss 7mo ago
        That's not how you would typically train a working dog.
        • lukan 7mo ago
          I imagine it depends on the work? I am not an expert here, but am a bit familiar with how rescue dogs are trained and this is a method in use.
  • TiredOfLife 7mo ago
    The flying ones can use thermal cameras. The mines and surrounding areas change temperature differently. Then the ground ones do the actual demining.
    • lukan 7mo ago
      But this only works for mines not or only lightly covered by earth I assume? There has been lots of rain falling from the sky, moving earth, since the mines were laid.