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- Automated mine detection
Automated mine detection
14 Feb 2023
![Automated mine detection](/documents/20142/4232813/Image-3-subpage.jpg)
Title: Automated mine detection
Description: Artisanal and small-scale mines in Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery, found using the standard ‘U-Net’ deep learning model (blue) and the improved ‘ADSMS U-Net’ model (green), which has fewer false negatives. Red shows manually identified mines as found in high-resolution Pléiades data. The area shown is around Gouéra, Burkina Faso.
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