Landmines are one of the most environmentally destructive aftermaths of war facing the world today. The global landmine problem has transcended both humanitarian and sociological concerns to bring about environmental damage. Disruption of land’s stability, pollution and loss of biodiversity constitute major ecological repercussions of landmine crisis. This paper aim to emphasise how landmines a...

Inexpensive ground-contacting accelerometers have been demonstrated in field experiments as appropriate vibrometers for a seismic landmine detection system. A thirty-two-element line array of these has been used to detect a variety of anti-tank (AT) landmines under realistic field conditions. Images of data measured by scanning this line array to synthesize a larger plane array have shown that ...

BACKGROUND To describe the mental health status of 78 child and adolescent survivors of post-war landmine explosions. METHODS Child and adolescent survivors of landmine explosions who were younger than 18 years old at the time of the study were identified and enrolled in this study. The mental health status of the participants was assessed by general health assessment and psychiatric examinat...

Landmines are affecting the lives and livelihood of millions of people around the world. The video impulse ground penetrating radar system for detection for small and shallow buried objects has been developed. The hardware combines commercially available components with components specially developed or modified for being used in the system. The GPR system has been desired to measure accurately...

INTRODUCTION The reason we report this case is that spine injuries may well occur due to landmines similar to other injuries like traumatic limb amputations and more over they may be overlooked. CASE PRESENTATION The patient was 29-years-old Turkish male and was a member of the military. He detonated the landmine that caused his injuries while in a conflict zone. He had a right below knee and...

An automatic landmine detection algorithm using Ground Penetrating Radar is described. The algorithm combines outputs of multiple detection and feature extraction algorithms to generate a single confidence that a landmine is present at a location. The combination is performed using a fuzzy inference system. Results are provided for real data obtained in real-time with the Geo-Centers Vehicle Mo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of phantom limb sensation (PLS) and phantom limb pain (PLP) in children and young adults suffering landmine-related amputation. MATERIALS & METHODS All youths with amputation due to landmine explosions participated in this study. The proportions of patients with phantom limb sensation/pain, intensity and frequency of pain were reported. Chi square test was...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the development of robust, cost-effective and high performance non-metallic landmine detection systems using ground penetrating radar (GPR). Many of the available solutions try to discriminate landmines from clutter by extracting some form of statistical or geometrical information from the raw GPR data, and oftentimes, it is difficult to assess ...