| September 2005: Recording
of lecture to Red Cross information evening. (Download Lecturnity Player
from here)
April 2004: Keynote address
to SPIE Defense and Security Meeting - Session stream on Detection of
Landmine like targets.
(2003: The demining research project continues at a lower level of
activity. Attention has shifted to the problem of engineering skills
that inhibits development in landmine clearance practices in the field.
See this paper for
an introduction to the problem.)
December 2002: Farming minefields, statistical
modelling of manual demining in Afghanistan. Two refereed papers
on the DTIF web site.
May 2002: How Do Mine Detection
Dogs Find Landmines: A Review of Scientific Research See also a
summary of current work on mine detection
dogs.
January 2002: Update on
Afghanistan: Photographs from Kabul and comments
Report on Reliability and Depth of Probing: Shows that probing is unreliable
at depth of more than 12 cm in ideal conditions.(to come)
New Ways of Thinking about Mine
Action - Lateral Thinking can Save Lives and Time.
Arabic Translations of Reports on Lebanon and Jordan.(to come)
Report on Time to Clear Fragments from
Minefields in Afghanistan (August 2000)
Reports on Quality Standards for Demining, Reducing
Accident Frequency and Improving the Mine Action Process (June 2000)
PMN-2 Mine - detailed photographs (June
2000)
Resources on Mine Detection Dogs (February-March
2000)
Report on Egyptian Minefields
and Clearance Problems (March 2000)
Our comments on the ELF Detector by Loch Harris
& ChemTech (March 2000)
Deminer Technology Needs Analysis
- A Major Study (February 2000)
Review of Site January 2000 - All
pages were reviewed and where possible updated. If your favourite page
has moved we apologise - the site had to be re-organised for easier
maintenance. Images are smaller and load faster.
Recent trials in Pakistan with
excavation tools
Landmines in Jordan
Landmines in Lebanon
Landmines in Egypt (in preparation)
Landmines in the Balkans:
Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo
Bacteria can locate TNT (reproduced
by permission)
Aerial photography for locating minefields
(reproduced from ITC Netherlands by persmission)
Quality Assurance: Some new ideas
A new, more informative guide for visitors
Prodders: experimental
developments 1997-2000 in Pakistan
New
photographs from Afghanistan
Additional Photos
from Cambodia (extra photos added)
Minefield photographs
from Northern Iraq
More past reports and papers
on-line
Additions in June/July 1999
Electro-chemical cutting
Demining
Ergonomics
Metal Detectors - principles
of operation (work in progress)
Paper on Magnetic Fragment Removal
Trial
Trip Wire Pulling
Mine Action - work in progress
Pictorial tour of
Afghan minefields (easier to find your way around, and faster loading
images)
Paint Marker tests
Protective Equipment Trials in Pakistan
by HARC
Disc marker (HARC)
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