Anti-Personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining: The Current Situation and Future Direction for Japanese Research and Development

by Jun Ishikawa

Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining reports on state-of-the-art technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project (2002-2007). The conventional method of landmine detection is using metal detectors to sense the metal in mines, but often other metal fragments in minefields camouflage landmines and hinder progress using this form of demining. The challenge is to develop detection systems that can discriminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849968381
• ISBN13: 9781849968386
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 212 Pages