HardwareRobotics and DronesSIH26064
Low-Cost Deployable Seafloor Metal Detection Sensor for Ocean Resource Exploration
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
- Organisation
- Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
- Department
- National Centre for Polar andOcean Research (NCPOR)
- Category
- Hardware
- Theme
- Robotics and Drones
- Submission deadline
- 5 October 20262026-10-05
- Ideas submitted
- 126/500
- Serial number
- 64
- Data captured on
- 2026-10-02
- Dataset link
- No dataset link published
- Contact info
- No contact published
- Youtube link
- No video published
Problem brief
Design and develop a low-cost deployable ocean-bottom sensor that can be released from a research vessel during surveys to detect and map metal-rich seabed deposits, including polymetallic nodules, hydrothermal sulphides, cobalt-rich crusts and rare-earth-element-bearing sediments, providing a rapid and cost-effective tool for deep-ocean mineral exploration.