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Antipersonnel landmines, along with other unexploded ordnance, litter the ground in more than 80 countries. Eliminating this threat will take massive resources unless we think of new ways to approach this problem.

Our research aims to support humanitarian demining efforts with research into the needs of deminers working in countries such as Afghanistan and Cambodia, and to develop practical innovations which can improve effectiveness and safety.

We found that many simple improvements shown here were never used in practice, even though they bring significant cost-benefit improvements. We learned that understanding engineering practice could provide answers....so we have focused our research since 2002 on this issue.

Updated with Afghanistan info in February 2002.

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AKNOWLEDGMENT - FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Our work has been supported financially by private sources, The University of Western Australia, and until 1999, a contract from the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate which provided most of our funding up to the start of year 2000. Many people have generously donated their time and support as well.