A series of documentary style videos are being produced to help explain drone activities for humanitarian mine action taking place in Chad.
The following is Part 1 in the series, captured during field work in January 2019.
It is basically a video companion to this research paper.
More information is available here.
We’re proud to have had a peer reviewed research paper published in the latest edition of the Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction.
Being peer reviewed by experts from the humanitarian mine action (HMA) sector was a way to gain validation regarding the work that took place during the January 2019 field campaign with Humanity and Inclusion in Chad.
For more information about the Odyssey2025 project in Chad, see www.mr-au.com/chad.
We’ve officially commenced a new project where Mobility Robotics will be a partner conducting field trials and capacity building for minefield and explosive remnants of war cleanup using small commercial drones/UAS’s in the central African country, the Republic of Chad.
It is a project being led by Humanity and Inclusion (Handicap International) Belgium, funded by the Belgium DGD, the Directorate General Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.
It will be a challenging project, with a significant proportion of operations based in a harsh desert environment.
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Sister company Fardoulis Robotics has been awarded a contract under the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Space, in association with Cranfield University’s Centre for Electronic Warfare Information and Cyber, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
The project is humanitarian in nature, investigating how next-generation robotics and remote-sensing can help the humanitarian mine action sector deal with the devastating effects of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). More information is available, here.
Cranfield University’s Centre for Electronic Warfare Information and Cyber is a world-leading centre for research, education and consultancy on a diverse range of specialities in electronic and digital attack and protection. The Centre’s capabilities are widely respected within the defence and security sector, serving an extensive range of students, clients and organisations.
John Fardoulis has been experimenting with the combination of photogrammetry and thermal imaging techniques, to create geo-referenced thermal orthomosaics.
Imagine if Google Earth could be provided with thermal imagery, that’s the idea.
The Return to Antikythera project is currently one of the most high profile underwater archaeology initiatives in the world. Expedition videos below provide insight into the calibre of this project.
John Fardoulis has been a member of the Return to Antikythera team for several years, with the most recent work being to provide a detailed terrain reconstruction of the coastline adjacent to the Antikythera shipwreck.
This data will be used to help build a floating dock, from which the Hublot-designed underwater ROV (aka. underwater drone), Bublot will be deployed in 2018.
The 2017 expedition video is below.
The following excerpt from the 2016 expedition video has had over 1.4 million views.
The 2015 expedition video is below.
Mobility Robotics has also provided aerial video services for a documentary being produced on the project.