The Urs Endress Foundation has set the goal to redesign the civil minesweeping in a faster, more effective and cost saving way. For this purpose, projects, which are making the minesweeping, finding of duds and similar weapon systems, among others by the use of UAS (Unmanned Air Systems, drones) with high performance measurement techniques possible, are being promoted.

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Research and development takes place predominantly in Switzerland, but is also internationally oriented. For this purpose, the Urs Endress Foundation is setting up the MINE DETECTION SYMPOSIUM for the first time on a worldwide scale, which serves as an interdisciplinary platform for experts from all disciplines.