SEEDED MINEFIELD
We have seeded a comprehensive minefield consisting of 150 diverse explosive remnants of war buried at systematic varying depths located at the OSU Center for Fire and Explosives, Forensic Investigation, Training and Research range in Pawnee, Oklahoma. The purpose of this field is to serve as a resource and benchmark to the humanitarian mine community, allowing researchers to thoroughly test methods and instruments for landmine and UXO detection.
Design
Permanent seeded field map displayed as an orthomosaic on a satellite map. The blue square shows the location of the IVS relative to the field. There is a pavilion for field operation logistics and gravel road access to the site.
Condensed grid for visualization of placement of each item, produced from structure-from-motion photogrammetry. Columns A–E are accurate in terms of placement and order in the buried grid, and F is accurate in order of items, but there is offset of item placement.
Day of burial, pavilion and road access available to site.
Permanent seeded field map displayed as an orthomosaic on a satellite map. The blue square shows the location of the IVS relative to the field. There is a pavilion for field operation logistics and gravel road access to the site.
Check out our paper in the Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction for more detailed information on methods and design of this field!
Field-test your research
Interested in field testing your technology or research on this seeded field?
Reach out to us at deminingresearch@gmail.com with the subject line "Field Testing - <Your Organization>"
Please answer each of the following prompts in one or two sentences and we will get back to you shortly:
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Background on your organization
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Motivation
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Overview of technology
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Funding available
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Available dates and timeline
Note that this field exists to benefit the humanitarian mine action community so all data collected will be open-source, helping to build a benchmarked dataset for you to objectively assess your technology!
Open Source Datasets
Download Multimodal Datasets Here:
RGB, Thermal, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, Magnetometry, EMI, LiDAR, SAR, and GPR
Seeded Field Web Map
Explore the different datasets with our interactive web-map
References
The following papers go into depth for different modalities in this data release and web-map for the seeded field.
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Baur, J., Steinberg, G., Frucci, J., & Brinkley, A. (2023). An accessible seeded field for humanitarian mine action research. The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, 27(3), 2.
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Lekhak, S., Ientilucci, E. J., & Brinkley, A. W. (2024). Viability of substituting handheld metal detectors with an airborne metal detection system for landmine and unexploded ordnance detection. Remote Sensing, 16(24), 4732.
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Lekhak, S., Ientilucci, E. J., Baur, J., & Ghosh, S. (2025). A UAV-based VNIR hyperspectral benchmark dataset for landmine and UXO detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.02700.
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Baur, J., & Nitsche, F. O. (2025). A False-Positive-Centric Framework for Object Detection Disambiguation. Remote Sensing, 17(14), 2429.
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Andriksons, M., Dobrovolskiy, A., & Owens, D. (2024). Comparative analysis of UXO detection using an atomic total-field and a fluxgate magnetometer at the Oklahoma State University testing range. SPH Engineering.
