This paper presents the work of several ongoing studies to determine the effectiveness of multiple small robotic vehicles for performing mine field clearance, and the related problem of clearing unexploded ordnance from areas of interest. Many issues are implied in this opening sentence. Not the least of these is knowing, out the many items cluttering a battlefield, which ones need to be cleare...

Past unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance projects have demonstrated that the ability to detect UXO can be seriously hindered by the presence of magnetic rocks and soils. In particular, magnetic material affects the decay curve characteristics in electromagnetic surveys and this can adversely affect inversion calculations that try to estimate parameters of the UXO or answer the question of wheth...

Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use regression analysis to identify the determinants of the probability of getting killed by a mine or UXO and to estimate the determinants impacts....

Landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), which include unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned explosive ordnance, represent a major threat to civilian. This demands that all the mines and ERW affecting the places where ordinary people live must be cleared, and safety of people in areas that have been cleared must be guaranteed. UXO is explosive ordnance that has been primed, fuzzed, arme...

Magnetization is a natural property of magnetic materials which widely used to analyze paramagnetic data, locate unexploded ordnance, explore mineral deposits and gas resources, image anomalous structures in the Earth's crust. An essential challenging task compute accurate anomalies caused by realistic 3D structures. In this study, for first time, we derive analytical expressions potential, fie...

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 ...