Project METASHAPE will develop and experimentally validate a methodology for empowering handheld pulse induction metal detectors used in humanitarian mine action with improved target discrimination capabilities. The technology is based on identification of a general target shape, irrespective of metal type, orientation or burial depth.

Our university partner in Zagreb is working with a detector manufacturer whose detectors will be equipped with a robust and unobtrusive search head tracking system and digital signal processing algorithms for real-time estimation of a metal target shape based on metal detector readings.