The focus of this paper is effective health education and promotion in the field of mine awareness, or what has more recently been re-titled 'mine risk education'. According to the United Nations, mine risk education comprises educational activities that aim to reduce the risk of injury from landmine/unexploded ordnance (UXO) through raising awareness and promoting behavioural change and includ...

In the development of geophysical methods for unexploded ordnance detection, a very important role is played by UXO test sites, where known and other explosive/nonexplosive items are buried in ground at defined positions. At such various detection can be compared, developed tested. Based on cooperation between Department Applied Geophysics (Comenius University), Institute Forensic Science (Slov...

1. Abstract This paper presents a methodology that combines logistic regression with kriging for incorporating exhaustive secondary information into the mapping of the risk of occurrence of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Logistic regression, which is appropriate for binary data (indicators) analysis, is used to derive the trend component in simple kriging with varying local means (SKlm). The techni...

A procedure is described for computing range and orientation invariant spectral signatures of buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) from electromagnetic induction (EMI) data. The normalized eigenvalues of the magnetic polarizability tensor that characterizes the target response are used as the orientation-invariant spectral signatures. It is shown that the eigenvalues can be normalized with respect ...

A few promising solutions for thermal imaging Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection were proposed after the start of military conflict in Ukraine 2014. At same time, most landmine clearance protocols and practices are based on old, 20th-century technologies. More than 60 countries worldwide still affected by explosive remnants war, new areas contaminated almost every day. To date, no automated ex...

Virginia Tech is currently developing a new autonomous vehicle as a research platform. This vehicle is being used to investigate techniques in autonomous landmine/UXO detection. In addition, it was entered in the 2000 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. This vehicle senses its surroundings using two (non-stereo) color CCD cameras, a SICK laser range finder, and wheel encoders. The cameras g...

The goal of the work presented in a two-companion paper is to pave way for reliably assessing risks damage buildings on shore, induced by detonation unexploded historical ordnance (UXO) large weights variable shallow water environments with depth less than 50 m. risk assessment quantified through seismic magnitude Richter scale, charges different (between 80- and 680-kg TNT-equivalent). This me...

In recent years it has become apparent that the performance of detection sensors for land mines and UXO may be seriously hampered by the magnetic behavior of soils. In tropical soils it is common to find large concentrations of iron oxide minerals, which are the predominant cause for soil magnetism. However, a wide range of factors such as parent material, environmental conditions, soil age, an...