Publications

Dissertation: Towards Operational UAS-Based Landmine Detection: Vegetation, Validation, and Geophysical Application

Jasper Baur, Sept 2025

"A False-Positive-Centric Framework for Object Detection Disambiguation"

Jasper Baur, Kyle Dewey, Gabriel Steinberg, and Frank Nitsche. Remote Sensing, Jun. 2024

“Modeling the Effect of Vegetation Coverage on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based Object Detection: A Study in the Minefield Environment ”

Jasper Baur, Kyle Dewey, Gabriel Steinberg, and Frank Nitsche. Remote Sensing, Jun. 2024

“An Accessible Seeded-field for Humanitarian Mine Action”

Jasper Baur, Gabriel Steinberg, John Frucci, and Anthony Brinkley. Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Oct. 2023

"Temperature of the Villarrica lava lake from 1963 to 2015 constrained by phase-equilibrium and a new glass geothermometer for Basaltic Andesites,"

Yves Moussallam, Hyun Joo Lee, Shuo Ding, Maegan DeLessio, Jenna Lauren Everard, Emily Spittle, George Lu, Jasper Baur, Emily Glazer, Ally Peccia, Maheenuz Zaman, Nathaniel Alper, Bennett Slibeck. Journal of Petrology, Feb. 2023

“Inspiring the Next Generation of Humanitarian Mine Action Researchers”

Madison Tuohy, Eva Greenspan, Sofia Fasullo, Jasper Baur, Gabriel Steinberg, Linda Zheng, Alex Nikulin, Garrett Clayton, and Timothy de Smet. Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Feb. 2023

“An Experimental Model of Unconfined Bubbly Lava Flows: Importance of Localized Bubble Distribution ,”

Atsuko Namiki, Einat Lev, Janine Birnbaum, Jasper Baur. Journal of Geophysical Research, May. 2022

“How to Implement Drones and Machine Learning to Reduce Time, Costs, and Dangers Associated with Landmine Detection,”

Jasper Baur & Gabriel Steinberg, Alex Nikulin, Kenneth Chiu, Timothy de Smet. Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Sep. 2021

“Applying Deep Learning to Automate UAV-based Detection of Scatterable Landmines,”

Jasper Baur, Gabriel Steinberg, Alex Nikulin, Kenneth Chiu, Timothy de Smet. Remote Sensing, Mar. 2020

“Field Application of Thermal Infrared Sensing Method for the Detection of Plastic Landmine,”

Alex Nikulin, Timothy de Smet, Jasper Baur, and William Frazer. Remote Sensing, Oct. 2018

“Drones and “Butterflies”: A Low Cost UAV System for Rapid Detection and Identification of Unconventional Minefields,”

Timothy S. de Smet, Alex Nikulin, William

Frazer, Jasper Baur, Jacob Abramowitz, et al. Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Nov. 2018