Apopo, which received an award of £200,000 ($305,000) last year from the People's Postcode Lottery, believes the rats have even more to offer than mine detection and TB screening.
Rolls-Royce is designing an autonomous naval ship capable of patrol, surveillance, mine detection and fleet screening.
These detectors can be employed in numerous applications such as environmental monitoring, spectroscopy, medical diagnosis, battlefield-imaging, space astronomy applications, mine detection, and remote-sensing.
It is expected that controlled bio-systems, biotechnology and microbial techniques will contribute to the advancement of mine detection and other application domains.
FMCW SAIS has been developed with both acoustic source and electromagnetic wave in airborne remote sensing fields, such as reconnaissance, concealed target detection, robotic sensing, non-destructive testing, gas flow measurements, mine detection, surveillance, and so on [5].
Throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom, the headquarters commanded up to 15,000 engineers at one time, conducting missions including bridging, humanitarian assistance, topographic missions, dive missions, firefighting, base construction, river patrols, mine detection, missile removal and many more.
And as of this year, the US military has already deployed some of its numerous recon and mine detection drones like the long tubes that are the Bluefin-21 and Knifefish robots in active duty and high profile missions, such as the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
For example, Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Ottawa has conducted numerous experiments on indoor through-wall imaging, snow penetration, stand-off remote sensing of human subjects, and mine detection using high-resolution UWB signals [1].
An experimental pilot study was undertaken to determine whether or not basic navigational and mine detection components of diver performance could be improved as a result of exposing participants to the AAR system, delivered between simulated diving scenarios.
Faced with a short turn-around request to characterise several hand-held mine detection systems the authors developed and applied an analytical methodology that was sufficiently robust and pragmatic to satisfy the needs of the various military stakeholders involved yet it was appropriately rigorous and transparent to bear external scrutiny.
In recent years, they have attracted growing interest in automatic target detection and classification [2], computational molecular biology [3], bioinformatics [4], mine detection [5], handwritten character/word recognition [6], and other computer vision applications [7].
