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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 di
by lukan 8mo 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 8mo ago> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.
- lukan 8mo agoI 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.
- TiredOfLife 8mo agoThe flying ones can use thermal cameras. The mines and surrounding areas change temperature differently. Then the ground ones do the actual demining.
- lukan 8mo agoBut 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.