{"id":14898,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/using-lidar-detection-to-detect-non-ferrous-landmines-in-dense-foliage\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"using-lidar-detection-to-detect-non-ferrous-landmines-in-dense-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/using-lidar-detection-to-detect-non-ferrous-landmines-in-dense-foliage\/","title":{"rendered":"Using LiDAR Detection To Detect Non-ferrous Landmines in Dense Foliage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Sokil<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science\/Physics\/Global, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Christopher Cotner \u201913, Ivan Dudiak \u201926, Xander Fries \u201924<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Jason Gallicchio<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Carleton Imbens (TL-S), Ethan Lotan (TL-F), Trevor Carson, Edward Donson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">There are over 80 million active landmines in post-conflict areas all over the world. Sokil is a humanitarian demining startup which aims to use low-cost sensor systems to autonomously detect landmines under light brush. The Sokil team has constructed a hand-portable LIDAR scanner, designed various light detection and ranging (LIDAR) algorithms, and performed field testing to compare the performance of their algorithms against modern sUAV imaging techniques.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sokil Computer Science\/Physics\/Global, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Christopher Cotner \u201913, Ivan Dudiak \u201926, Xander Fries \u201924 Advisor(s): Jason Gallicchio Students(s): Carleton Imbens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,186,161],"tags":[753],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-global","category-physics","tag-sokil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14941,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}