UNDP hands Mines Eye to SESU after a pilot scanning over 360 ha

AI system

System: Mines Eye aerial detection system (unmanned aerial platform with magnetometry, visual and infrared sensors, and AI detection of explosive remnants of war)
Model: Not assessed
Release: Not assessed
Application developer: Ukrainian developer not named in the UNDP release ('Developed in Ukraine')
Role: Not assessed
Configuration: Not assessed
Inputs and outputs: Not assessed
Autonomy: Not assessed
Workflow: UNDP-trained SESU teams flying the system over confirmed and suspected hazardous areas during a five-month pilot. Donor funding (Government of Luxembourg) for procurement and training.
Human oversight: Not assessed
Relation to AI: UNDP's release attributes the detection of explosive remnants beneath vegetation to the system's artificial intelligence working on magnetometry and visual and infrared imagery. It reports only area scanned. No detection, false-alarm or confirmation figure is given. No source independent of UNDP and SESU was found. The developer is unnamed, so the AI component cannot be characterized further.
AI contribution: UNDP's release attributes the detection of explosive remnants beneath vegetation to the system's artificial intelligence working on magnetometry and visual and infrared imagery. It reports only area scanned. No detection, false-alarm or confirmation figure is given. No source independent of UNDP and SESU was found. The developer is unnamed, so the AI component cannot be characterized further.

Studies: Not assessed
Study design: Not assessed
Measurement: Not assessed
Setting and sample: Not assessed
Measures: scan over 360 hectares of confirmed and suspected hazardous areas
Comparison: Assumed alternative: manual inspection of hazardous areas
Results: Assumed comparison. Reference: areas that are too dangerous for manual inspection. Result: survey dangerous areas quickly, precisely, and without risk to people.
Additional value from AI: Not assessed
Limitations: Not assessed
Denominators: Not assessed
Materials for replication: Not assessed

Participants: Developer: Ukrainian developer not named in the UNDP release ('Developed in Ukraine'). Operator: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU), Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblast demining teams; procured by UNDP with funding from the Government of Luxembourg.
Jurisdictions: Benefit: Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblasts, Ukraine. Operator: Ukraine.
Ownership and control: Not assessed
Dependencies: Not assessed
Cross-border connections: Not assessed
Geopolitical implications: Not assessed

Conditions for replication: Anomaly reports are followed by manual or mechanical clearance that confirms the detections. The release documents no such confirmation. Terrain and vegetation resemble the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv pilot areas.
Replication attempts: Not assessed
Later findings: No source dated after the 21 June 2025 handover was found; the release itself only states that the system will be integrated into SESU's toolbox and deployed across Ukraine.
Availability: Not assessed
Institutional decision: Not assessed
Grounds: Not assessed
Action and result: Not assessed
Success criterion: Not assessed

Assessed benefits: Organizations. Society.
Depth: Not assessed
Reasons: Organizations: SESU scanned over 360 hectares with the system during the pilot. The release gives no detection counts, confirmation rates or clearance results against which to measure the benefit. Society: No land released to communities, casualty avoided or farmland restored is documented. The officials' statements about faster and safer demining are expectations.
Observed or intended: Not assessed
Rubric: Not assessed
Assessor and date: Not assessed
Alternative assessments: Not assessed
Fill: The deployer's account

Kind: Not assessed
Related entries: Not assessed
Field: Humanitarian mine action. State emergency service survey of hazardous areas.
Purpose: Built to survey contaminated land remotely and flag explosive remnants of war, including anti-tank mines under vegetation. This lets clearance teams plan safely. The pilot was that intended use.
Dates: Date basis unassessed: 2025 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
Stage: Not assessed
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