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Demining
Maki K. Habib
Humanitarian Demining
Edited by Maki K. Habib
ISBN 978-3-902613-11-0, 392 pages,  Publishing date: February 2008
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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).

Table of Contents

02 Humanitarian Demining: Research Challenges
James Trevelyan
Downloads 296
03 Mine-suspected Area Reduction Using Aerial and Satellite Images
Acheroy Marc and Yvinec Yann
Downloads 262
06 GPR Environmental-Based Landmine Automatic Detection
Zakarya Zyada, Yasuhiro Kawai, Shinsuke Sato, Takayuki Matsuno Yasuhisa Hasegawa and Toshio Fukuda
Downloads 255
07 Vehicle Mounted Dual Sensor: SAR-GPR
Motoyuki Sato, Kazunori Takahashi, Takao Kobayashi Jun Fujiwara and Xuan Feng
Downloads 348
08 Humanitarian Demining Using an Insect Based Chemical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Sergi Bermudez i Badia and Paul F.M.J. Verschure
Downloads 288
09 Development of Deminer-Assisting Robotic Tools at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Marc Freese, Paulo Debenest, Edwardo F. Fukushima and Shigeo Hirose
Downloads 321
10 Mine Detection Robot and Related Technologies for Humanitarian Demining
Kenzo Nonami, Seiji Masunaga, Daniel Waterman, Hajime Aoyama and Yoshihiro Takada
Downloads 350
11 Developments on an Affordable Robotic System for Humanitarian Demining
Pedro Santana, Luis Correia and Jose Barata
Downloads 264
13 Land Robotic Vehicles for Demining
Stefan Havlik
Downloads 306
15 A Human-Animal-Robot Cooperative System for Anti-Personal Mine Detection
Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Tharindu Dissanayake, Prasanna Mahipala and K. A. Gayan Sanjaya
Downloads 266