Preliminary results of UAV magnetic surveys for unexploded ordnance de-tection in Ukraine: effectiveness and challenges
Journal: Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal
Year: 2023

Over the past decade, the development of unmanned aerial technologies has allowed them to be considered a tool for conducting remote Earth sensing research. The use of such systems is primarily associated with solving geological and archaeological tasks. However, the armed aggression by the Russian Federation contaminated Ukrainian territory at an unprecedented scale, including unexploded ordnance (UXO). It is necessary to check unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to address this issue.