With drones, geophysics and artificial intelligence, researchers prepare to do battle against land mines

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Apr 10, 2026, 7:20 pm191 ptsTrendingTop
When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got involved in a seemingly unrelated pursuit: harnessing drone-mounted geophysical instruments to aid in the slow, dangerous work of detecting land mines.

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