| ARIS Network of Excellence | |
| Description: | The ARIS Network of Excellence is intended to improve the effectiveness of European R&D in demining technologies. It will be a forum for information exchange between users, researchers, developers and producers of detection devices and systems. |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center | |
| Description: | Includes a number of standards related to humanitarian mine clearance e.g. Standard for mine clearance and EOD in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Regulations for accreditation of humanitarian demining operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| Cambodian Mine Action Centre | |
| Description: | With the support of the international community and the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre was created in November 1993 to address the mine problem in Cambodia. |
| Can bees detect landmines? | |
| Description: | Bees dutifully going about their daily business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back to the hive -- may soon help protect the lives and limbs of people, literally, if a demonstration project at Sandia is successful. Sandia is lending its explosives-detection and chemical-analysis skills, as well as a mock minefield in Area 3, to a longtime bee researcher at the University of Montana to see if foraging bees can safely and reliably detect buried landmines and help return hundreds of thousands of acres of uncharted land back to productive use. |
| ESPRIT Humanitarian Demining, Support Activities to R&D Projects | |
| Description: | Several ESPRIT R&D projects are now working on humanitarian demining equipment, and a number of other projects on this topic are running in Europe at national level and in the EUREKA framework. The support activities described here aim at increasing the efficiency of these actions through the organisation of common tasks. The European Commission's JRC in Ispra, as the focal point of the Commission's own R&D efforts in support of humanitarian demining, plays a central role in the efforts described in this document. |
| Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining | |
| Description: | The overall objective of the Foundation is the promotion of international co-operation in the fields of mine action. More explicitly, the aims of the foundation are: to strengthen the role of the United Nations and in particular of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) as the focal point for mine action within the UN system for all mine-related activities. to exploit and to further the expertise of all organisations working in mine action, but in a fully supportive and non-competitive way. to contribute to the formulation of coherent and comprehensive mine action strategies. |
| Hidden Killers | |
| Description: | Hidden Killers: The Global Landmine Crisis Report released by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Office of Humanitarian Demining Programs Washington, DC, September 1998 |
| Humanitarian Demining, R&D in ESPRIT | |
| Description: | Review EU developmentactivities regarding Humanitarian Demining. Includes references to and short descriptions of programme objectives and on-going R&D projects. |
| ITEP - International Test and Evaluation Programme for Humanitarian Demining | |
| Description: | ITEP will establish a responsive and sustained global network of Test and Evaluation (T&E) capabilities for measuring performance and evaluating the effectiveness and suitability of all forms of equipment, systems, and methods for use in humanitarian demining. |
| LAND MINE DETECTION: DOD's Research Program Needs a Comprehensive Evaluation Strategy | |
| Description: | DODs ability to make progress in substantially improving its land mine detection capabilities may be limited because DOD lacks an effective strategy for identifying and evaluating the most promising technologies. While DOD maintains an extensive program of outreach to external researchers and other nations military research organizations, it does not use an effective methodology to evaluate all technological options to guide its investment decisions. More specifically, DOD has not identified all relevant mission needs to guide its research programs and does not systematically evaluate the broad range of potential technologies that could address those mission needs. In addition, its productive program of basic research for addressing fundamental science-based questions is threatened by a proposed curtailment of funding. Lastly, because DODs testing plans do not require adequate testing of land mine detectors currently in development, the extent of performance limitations in the various operating conditions under which they are expected to be used will not be fully understood. |
| Landmine Who's Who from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) | |
| Description: | The following table lists organizations involved in solving the global landmine problem. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has compiled this list as an aid to persons seeking information on the landmine problem and its potential solutions. LLNL hopes that you will find this list useful, and asks your help in keeping it up-to-date. This list was created by the LLNL Library under the sponsorship of the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR). See also the LLNL Landmine Bibliography for a list of key print and electronic publications concerning the global landmine problem. |
| Norwegian Peoples Aid, - Mine Action programme in Angola | |
| Description: | NPA Demining in Angola has developed an extensive Website which has now been published. The site contains hundreds of photographs, diagrams and maps of our mine action programme. It is a good reference point for information on the different mine action capacities we employ and for the advantages and disadvantages of such techniques. There are few programmes that have such a well-developed 'toolbox' approach to demining. Experience acquired over several years is presented here with pages on: Landmine surveying & Database Mechanical mine clearance (Aardvark & Hydrema) Manual mine clearance Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Battle Area Clearance (BAC) Mine Dog verification and area reduction Explosive Vapour Detection (EVD) of remotely collected air samples (also known as MEDDS) Steel Wheel Clearance (CASSPIR vehicles) Mine Awareness |
| SPIE's 2000: Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V | |
| Description: | 24-28 April 2000, Orlando, Florida USA SPIE's 2000 AeroSense Symposium will be held at: Marriott's Orlando World Center Resort and Convention Center, 8701 World Center Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821-6398 Phone: 407-239-4200 or 800-621-0638 (outside Florida) Fax: 407-238-8948 |
| Stiftung Menschen gegen Minen | |
| Description: | MgM - The high-tech, low cost, and highly innovative non-profit organization dedicated to safe removal of landmines and reconstructing roads and buildings so that displaced people can go home. First of all, a personal commitment to helping the displaced people of Angola to return home is our driving force . Second, all policy and strategic actions are deturmined in the field. Third, local people are trained to be our highly efficient and safe staff. Fourth, MgM relies heavily on the latest on intelligence information and technology to get the job done. |