DOT Funding Opportunity - Buried Mine Sensing from an Unmanned Air Vehicle

The Office of Naval Research seeks white papers describing innovative technology concepts to provide standoff detection or indicators of buried mines, mine lines or minefields from an unmanned air vehicle. Concepts are required to detect mines buried on the beach and in the surf zone. The environment includes the beach which can alternate between dry and wet conditions due to tides, and the surf zone which extends from the beach out to a water depth of 5 meters. The targets include buried anti-tank and anti-invasion mines. Concepts may include a single sensor technology or multiple sensor technologies to cover different portions of the environment with fusion of the results and on-board real-time processing of imagery and detections. The effort will include basic concept investigations and experiments leading to the development of hardware for a demonstration of the concepts from a manned aircraft. The intention is to initiate new research efforts in FY 2007 with candidate concepts demonstrated in FY 2009 or earlier.

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