Service: Loting illegally buried cadavers with drones - Use of drones to detect illegaly buried cadavers

Responsible organisation: Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVW (Central-Government)

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVW) uses drones who employ machine learning to detect irregularities. The goal of this project is to localize illegally buried cadavers. Burying a cadaver will lead to irregularities in surface vegetation. If there are irregularities, an inspector can be deployed to investigate the scene in question. The aim is to get an accurate sense of the actual situation as quickly as possible. The end goal of this technology is that different government services can use the same data, so that they don’t have to collect their own data.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://techforfuture.nl/onderzoek/lopend/hidden-graves/
Start/end date 2018 - 2020.0
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