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DYLEMA: Using walking robots for landmine detection and location [PDF]

, 2005
Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is an important worldwide concern. A huge number of landmines has been deployed over the last twenty years, and demining will take several more decades, even if no more mines were deployed in future.
Armada, Manuel, Estremera, Joaquín, García Armada, Elena, González de Santos, Pablo   +3 more
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Antipersonnel landmines in the Colombian internal conflict: implications for technology development

Dyna, 2020
The effort of universities, companies, and the state in Colombia to face home-made AP landmines has generated useful solutions and studies for many projects developed in the last decade, including demining processes in Colombia.
Jesus Antonio Vega Uribe, Hichem Sahli, Alain Gauthier Sellier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling the Effect of Vegetation Coverage on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Based Object Detection: A Study in the Minefield Environment

Remote Sensing
An important consideration for UAV-based (unmanned aerial vehicle) object detection in the natural environment is vegetation height and foliar cover, which can visually obscure the items a machine learning model is trained to detect.
Jasper Baur, Kyle Dewey, Gabriel Steinberg, Frank O. Nitsche   +3 more
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GPR Signal Characterization for Automated Landmine and UXO Detection Based on Machine Learning Techniques

Remote Sensing, 2014
Landmine clearance is an ongoing problem that currently affects millions of people around the world. This study evaluates the effectiveness of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in demining and unexploded ordnance detection using 2.3-GHz and 1-GHz high ...
Xavier Núñez-Nieto, Mercedes Solla, Paula Gómez-Pérez, Henrique Lorenzo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mine Action in Ukraine as an Administrative and Legal Category

Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
The scientific article is devoted to the issue of defining mine action in Ukraine as an administrative and legal category, identifying existing gaps in legislative regulation, and outlining directions for their elimination.
V. I. Teremetskyi, M. Yu. Marchenko
doaj   +1 more source

Using Windmill Expansion for Document Retrieval

, 2009
SEMIOTIKS aims to utilise online information to support the crucial decision–making of those military and civilian agencies involved in the humanitarian removal of landmines in areas of conflict throughout the world.
Liang, Shao, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel, Smart, Paul   +3 more
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“FOR THE FINAL DEMINING OF THE DISTRICTS FREED FROM THE OCCUPATION, THE STATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE DECIDES...”: THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S APPROACHES TO DEMINING OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF THE WEST OF THE RSFSR (1940s – MID 1950s)

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Background. The research of the removal of mines in villages of western Russia in the 1940s – middle 1950s is determined by the need to achieve a better understanding of the government power mechanism and collective farming communities at the time and
I. V. Kometchikov
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Design of a training tool for improving the use of hand-held detectors in humanitarian demining [PDF]

, 2012
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the design of a training tool intended to improve deminers' technique during close-in detection tasks.
Armada Rodríguez, Manuel Ángel, Fernández, Roemi, González de Santos, Pablo, Montes, H., Salinas, Carlota   +4 more
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Bridging Human Expertise with Machine Learning and GIS for Mine Type Prediction and Classification

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
This paper introduces an intelligent model that combines military expertise with the latest advancements in machine learning (ML) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support humanitarian demining decision-making processes, by predicting mined ...
Adib Saliba, Kifah Tout, Chamseddine Zaki, Christophe Claramunt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The value of statistical life and cost-benefit evaluations of landmine clearance in Cambodia [PDF]

, 2008
Development agencies spend approximately US$400 million per year on landmine clearance. Yet many cost-benefit evaluations suggest that landmine clearance is socially wasteful because costs appear to far outweigh social benefits.
Cameron, Michael Patrick, Gibson, John, Helmers, Kent, Lim, Steven, Tressler, John, Vaddanak, Kien   +5 more
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