Development of Deminer to Neutralize Antipersonnel Landmines for Humanitarian Demining

Development of Deminer to Neutralize Antipersonnel Landmines for Humanitarian Demining
Author: Abhishek Shesharao Karadkhelkar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Detectors
ISBN:

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"An estimated 100 million unexploded land mines left over from this century's various wars and conflicts lie scattered in 94 countries, still lethal - decades after the peace treaties have been signed. Many of those mines are of the more modern "anti-personnel" variety which are designed to maim, rather than kill ... Due to the exorbitant cost of current demining techniques, there is a need for a simple but cost effective method to neutralize mines. The present study, actually, considers a properly singled out mission: mine neutralization in shrubby, dry grounds"--Abstract, leaf iii.

Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining

Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining
Author: Katsuhisa Furuta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2009-01-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1848823460

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Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining reports on state-of-the-art technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project (2002–2007). The conventional method of landmine detection is using metal detectors to sense the metal in mines, but often other metal fragments in minefields camouflage landmines and hinder progress using this form of demining. The challenge is to develop detection systems that can discriminate between AP landmines and random metal fragments. The JST adopted research proposals and the results are reported here. This book concentrates on aspects of three approaches to AP mine detection: enhancing and confirming the results of metal-detection scans using GPR; using robot vehicles and manipulators to operate within minefields remotely; and methods of sensing the explosives within mines. Results are presented in the fields of GPR, nuclear quadrupole resonance, neutron thermal analysis and biosensors. The integration of these methods for workable robot operation is demonstrated. The project was carried out in conjunction with mine action centers in Croatia, Cambodia and Afghanistan. Evaluation data from field trials are also given.

Operational Evaluation Test of Mine Neutralization Systems

Operational Evaluation Test of Mine Neutralization Systems
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

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During the Humanitarian Demining Research and Development Program's Fiscal Year 2003 Humanitarian Demining Requirements Workshop, expert deminers expressed a need for a cost-benefit and performance analysis for currently available deflagration (burning) and high-order (non-explosive binary mixture) mine neutralization systems that carry fewer shipping restrictions when compared to tradition explosives commonly used for mine neutralization. In response to this request, the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Acquisition Center-Washington, D.C., published a Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) announcement on January 21, 2004 on behalf of the Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), Countermine Division, Humanitarian Demining Branch, stating that the government was seeking sources for non-developmental high-order or low-order mine neutralization systems suitable for use in humanitarian demining operations. U.S. and foreign companies responded to this FBO announcement. Of the systems submitted for consideration, six deflagration systems including seven different devices and seven high-order systems including eleven different devices were selected for further evaluation. All mine neutralization systems evaluated in this report were successful in their ability to neutralize antipersonnel and antitank mines. When the systems are used properly, they are an effective, cost efficient alternative to traditional 1.1D explosives such as C-4 or TNT when neutralizing surface laid or surface buried landmines. However, all presented limitations in target set applicability, transportation restrictions, or cost. Given the right target set, any one of the systems evaluated during this test could do the job and be used with confidence by humanitarian deminers, military, and explosive ordnance disposal personnel.

Alternatives for Landmine Detection

Alternatives for Landmine Detection
Author: Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780833033017

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At the rate that government and nongovernmental organizations are clearing existing landmines, it will take 450-500 years to rid the world of them. Concerned about the slow pace of demining, the Office of Science and Technology asked RAND to assess potential innovative technologies being explored and to project what funding would be required to foster the development of the more promising ones. The authors of this report suggest that the federal government undertake a research and development effort to develop a multisensor mine detection system over the next five to eight years.

Foreign Aid and Landmine Clearance

Foreign Aid and Landmine Clearance
Author: Matthew Bolton
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-01-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781848851603

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In the decade since the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which banned the production and use of anti-personnel mines, governments have spent over $3 billion on clearing up and mitigating the security threat of mines, cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance in the world's current and former war zones. However, this flow of cash into regions dominated by violent social structures raises numerous political issues. Through detailed archival and field research, this book explores the politics behind the allocation and implementation of foreign aid by the US and Norway for demining in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan. It is an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers working in the field of landmine clearance and for students and researchers of Development Studies and post-war reconstruction.

Landmines

Landmines
Author: Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564321138

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Robots Operating in Hazardous Environments

Robots Operating in Hazardous Environments
Author: Hüseyin Canbolat
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2017-12-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9535136798

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Robots are used in industry, rescue missions, military operations, and subwater missions. Their use in hazardous environments is crucial in terms of occupational safety of workers and the health of rescue and military operations. This book presents several hazardous environment operations and safe operations of robots interacting with people in the context of occupational health and safety.

Design of Demining Machines

Design of Demining Machines
Author: Dinko Mikulic
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447145038

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In constant effort to eliminate mine danger, international mine action community has been developing safety, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of clearance methods. Demining machines have become necessary when conducting humanitarian demining where the mechanization of demining provides greater safety and productivity. Design of Demining Machines describes the development and testing of modern demining machines in humanitarian demining. Relevant data for design of demining machines are included to explain the machinery implemented and some innovative and inspiring development solutions. Development technologies, companies and projects are discussed to provide a comprehensive estimate of the effects of various design factors and to proper selection of optimal parameters for designing the demining machines. Covering the dynamic processes occurring in machine assemblies and their components to a broader understanding of demining machine as a whole, Design of Demining Machines is primarily tailored as a text for the study of the fundamentals and engineering techniques involved in the calculation and design of demining machines. It will prove as useful resource for engineers, designers, researchers and policy makers working in this field.

America's Buried History

America's Buried History
Author: Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781611214536

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"America's Buried History traces the development of landmines from their first use before the Civil War, to the early use of naval mines, through the establishment of the Confederacy's Army Torpedo Bureau, the world's first institution devoted to developing, producing, and fielding mines in warfare."--Provided by publisher,