Dispatches from abroad: laughter amid the land mines.

Dispatches from abroad: fighting maternal mortality in a former Soviet republic.

Novel inverse methods in land mine imaging

The imaging of buried land mines continues to present significant signal-processing challenges in the development of inverse methods for the detection of plastic mines buried in soil. To address this difficult problem, recent mathematical advances in the development of the Elliptic Systems Method are used to generate images of the buried land mines. The proposed approach adapts earlier methods,...

Data Fusion for Vehicle-borne Mine Detection

This paper introduces a statisticallywell-founded evaluation of the fusion of dual-band infrared and tri-band visual imagery for detecting buried land mines using real-data. A unified Bayesian framework is presented for representing and inferring from data captured by multiple sensors of scenes that may contain buried land mines.

Localisation of an Unknown Number of Land Mines Using a Network of Vapour Detectors

We consider the problem of localising an unknown number of land mines using concentration information provided by a wireless sensor network. A number of vapour sensors/detectors, deployed in the region of interest, are able to detect the concentration of the explosive vapours, emanating from buried land mines. The collected data is communicated to a fusion centre. Using a model for the transpor...

Sustainable Post-Mining Land Use: Are Closed Metal Mines Abandoned or Re-Used Space?

Sustainable land use in post-mining areas has received more attention only recently. This study examined landscape characteristics and post-mining land use in 51 metal mining sites in Finland. Studied mines were closed during the period of 1924–2016, and over half of them had been active more than 10 years. Mines were typically located in sparsely populated forest landscapes. Cultural and recre...