How technology is helping reduce the menace of landmines
Techniques deployed by the HALO Trust are saving lives
In the remote village of Nancova, in southern Angola, a team from the HALO Trust, a British mine-clearance charity, watches intently as a drone whirrs back and forth over a nearby hillside. It is searching the terrain below, using a thermal sensor to pick up temperature discrepancies that could spot the whereabouts of landmines laid decades earlier during the country’s devastating civil war.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Mine craft”
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