Landmine contamination is a vital contributor to long-lasting destructive effects on terrestrial ecosystem. Libya has experienced severe landmine impacts involving soil with hazardous heavy metals. This study was conducted in Benghazi, Libya, examine the phytotoxicity of contaminated residues recent exploded mine, seed germination and seedling growth field beans (Vicia faba L.). Results reveale...

Combined ground penetrating radar and metal detector equipment are now available (e.g., MINEHOUND, ERA TechnologyVallon GmbH) for landmine detection. The performance of the radar detector is influenced by the electromagnetic characteristics of the soil. In this paper we present an experimental procedure that uses the same equipment for the detection and calibration by means of signal processing...

This paper describes currently developed chemical and thermal landmine neutralization methods under the DoD Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Program. It includes a table showing the differences among current detonation or demolition techniques, and among chemical and thermal systems. Comparative elements include the neutralization mechanism; neutralization effects; time r...

This paper deals with a three-dimensional thermal model for landmine detection problems and an inverse problem for reconstructing the physical parameters of buried objects. Moreover, solutions are given for the estimation of the soil thermal diffusivity and meteorological parameters, needed for solving the inverse problem. The paper describes the main fundamental principles of thermal modelling...

This work studies different coverage approaches with a mobile robot equipped with a landmine detecting sensor attached to an actuator arm. Different coverage techniques were experiment in this work and the cost benefit was analyzed in terms of energy consumption. The problem of optimising the combined motion of a mobile platform with an arm was addressed. The feasibility and effectiveness of bo...

Landmine detection has become a humanitarian problem of great magnitude. It is estimated that there are between 60 and 100 million landmines buried around the world and that someone is killed or injured by landmines every 20 minutes. In this talk, pattern recognition problems in this area will be discussed. A brief overview of sensors used to collect data will be given. Current pattern recognit...

Antipersonnel landmines are often used indiscriminately and frequently result in injury or death of non-combatants. In the last 65 years, over 110 million mines have been spread throughout the world into an estimated 70 countries. Landmine victims use a disproportionately high amount of medical resources; the vast majority of incidents occur in regions and countries without a sophisticated medi...

During the World War I ,II over fifty countries in the world today have been inherited a legacy of antipersonnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) which represents a major threat to lives, and hinders reconstruction and development efforts. Landmines have specific properties that make it harder to detect .Therefore; these properties lead landmine detectors to become more complex. Many exa...

ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System), which is a novel landmine detection sensor system combined with a metal detector and GPR, was developed. This is a hand-held equipment, which has a sensor position tracking system, and can visualize the sensor output in real time on a head-mounted PC display. In order to achieve the sensor tracking system, ALIS needs only one CCD camera attached on the s...

The focus of this paper is effective health education and promotion in the field of mine awareness, or what has more recently been re-titled 'mine risk education'. According to the United Nations, mine risk education comprises educational activities that aim to reduce the risk of injury from landmine/unexploded ordnance (UXO) through raising awareness and promoting behavioural change and includ...