Humanitarian Demining
About this book
United Nation Department of Human Affairs (UNDHA) assesses that there are more than 100 million mines that are scattered across the world and pose significant hazards in more than 68 countries. The international Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) estimates that the casualty rate from landmines currently exceeds 26,000 persons every year. It is estimated that more than 800 persons are killed and 1,200 maimed each month by landmines around the world.Humanitarian demining demands that all the landmines (especially AP mines) and ERW affecting the places where ordinary people live must be cleared, and their safety in areas that have been cleared must be guaranteed.Innovative solutions and technologies are required and hence this book is coming out to address and deal with the problems, difficulties, priorities, development of sensing and demining technologies and the technological and research challenges. This book reports on the state of the art research and development findings and results.The content of the book has been structured into three technical research sections with total of 16 chapters written by well recognized researchers in the field worldwide. The main topics of these three technical research sections are: Humanitarian Demining: the Technology and the Research Challenges (Chapters 1 and 2), Sensors and Detection Techniques for Humanitarian Demining (Chapters 3 to 8), and Robotics and Flexible Mechanisms for Humanitarian Demining respectively (Chapters 9 to 16).
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Table of contents
- Humanitarian Demining
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Humanitarian Demining: The Problem, Difficulties, Priorities, Demining Technology and the Challenge for Robotics
- 2. Research Challenges
- 3. Mine-suspected Area Reduction Using Aerial and Satellite Images
- 4. Multi-sensor Data Fusion Based on Belief Functions and Possibility Theory: Close Range Antipersonnel Mine Detection and Remote Sensing Mined Area Reduction
- 5. Resonance and Nonlinear Seismo-Acoustic Land Mine Detection
- 6. GPR Environmental-Based Landmine Automatic Detection
- 7. Vehicle Mounted Dual Sensor: SAR-GPR
- 8. Humanitarian Demining Using an Insect Based Chemical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- 9. Development of Deminer-Assisting Robotic Tools at Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 10. Mine Detection Robot and Related Technologies for Humanitarian Demining
- 11. Developments on an Affordable Robotic System for Humanitarian Demining
- 12. Some Robotic Approaches and Technologies for Humanitarian Demining
- 13. Land Robotic Vehicles for Demining
- 14. PEACE: An Excavation-Type Demining Robot for Anti-Personnel Mines
- 15. A Human-Animal-Robot Cooperative System for Anti-Personal Mine Detection
- 16. Power Tillers for Demining in Sri Lanka: Participatory Design of Low-cost Technology
