Penetrating landmine injuries are the unavoidable consequences of military conflicts. They are potentially life-threatening. The mortality rates in the literature range from 23% to 92% and are considerably higher in patients admitted with poor neurologic state. Penetrating craniocerebral injuries require early surgical management designated to prevent infection and remove foreign objects, necro...

Each year landmines kill and maim an estimated 26 000 people worldwide. About 10%–40% of these victims are children, most of whom are affected long after the cessation of hostilities. 3 These deaths and injuries are potentially preventable but planning measures are hampered by the lack of data on determinants of landmine injuries in children; consequently mine awareness programmes for children ...

The GICHD Guidebook on Detection Technologies and Systems for Humanitarian Demining (http://www. gichd.ch/1248.0.html) presents a schematic, non-exhaustive overview of several landmine detection and area reduction sensing technologies and systems for humanitarian demining. The operating principle of each technology is presented first, followed by a schematic summary of the possible application ...

Since WWII acoustic echo-location method utilized in sonars has been one of the primary approaches for detecting underwater mines. However, earlier attempts to replicate sonar approach and its modifications for detection of landmines were not successful. For example, Caulfield, 1989, House & Pape, 1994, Don & Rogers, 1994 suggested the use of acoustic impulse reflection from soil. A buried obje...

Multi-static ground-penetrating radar (GPR) uses an array of antennas to conduct a number of bistatic operations simultaneously. The multi-static GPR is used to obtain more information on the target of interest using angular diversity. An entirely computer controlled, multi-static GPR consisting of a linear array of six resistively-loaded vee dipoles (RVDs), a network analyzer, and a microwave ...