SIH26064 · Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
Low-Cost Deployable Seafloor Metal Detection Sensor for Ocean Resource Exploration
💡 Before you commit — think it through
GuidedHow is this solved today?
List the current tools/products/manual methods people use for this. Judges want to see you know the landscape.
Where's the real gap?
What do today's solutions get wrong or miss? That gap is your opening.
Who actually feels this?
Name a real person or place near you affected by this. Plan to talk to them.
What would make yours different?
One angle no other team would take. This is what wins the pitch.
- Hardware edition — plan for a physical prototype, not just slides.
The problem
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.