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...

Throughout the world, the problem of buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) poses an enormous, persistent, and expensive problem. While UXO generally consist of sizable bodies of ferrous metal and can therefore be detected, with current technology it is extremely difficult to distinguish them reliably from typically widespread pieces of clutter. Thus the problem is one of subsurface discrimination. O...

BACKGROUND Although in the last few years there has been an increasing attention to the problem of landmines, to date, the implications of women being victims of landmine has not been duly dealt with in the world including Iran, which is estimated to be the second most landmine infested country in the world. Still, provinces by the west border of Iran, 18 years after cessation of Iraq-Iran war ...

Acoustic waves can be a viable tool for the detection and identification of land mines, unexplored ordnance (UXO), and other buried objects. Design of acoustic instruments and interpretation and processing of acoustic measurements call for accurate numerical models to simulate acoustic wave propagation in a heterogeneous soil with buried objects. Compared with the traditional seismic exploratio...

This paper presents the results of profile inversion of multi-frequency electromagnetic scatteredfield data, measured by the Institute Fresnel, Marseille, France, from cylindrical objects, both for TM andTE illuminations. The reconstructions are obtained by applying the Multiplicative Regularized Contrast SourceInversion (MR-CSI) method. The results show that the MR-CSI method succe...

This paper addresses the need for improved sensors for mine clearance operations and humanitarian demining efforts. These operations require an information system that is capable of supporting activities such as planning, training, simulation, execution, documentation and assessment. To achieve this goal the system is best implemented using a service-based architecture, with sensors and other s...

Current idealized forward models for electromagnetic induction (EMI) response can be defeated by the characteristic material and geometrical heterogeneity of realistic unexploded ordnance (UXO). A new, physically complete modeling system includes all effects of these heterogeneities and their interactions within the object, in both near and far fields. The model is fast enough for implementatio...