Researchers pick up good vibrations to locate buried mines. Exciting a land mine may not sound like a good idea, but developers of the Seismic Landmine Detection System are doing just that. A group of ...

Today�s mine detectors survive some tough treatment long before they ever reach the battlefields. In an age of global terrorists, military readiness means the capability to deploy equipment needed ...

Several thousand people -- many of them children -- are killed each year by the estimated 110 million land mines that lie hidden in 68 countries throughout the world. Humanitarian mine-clearing ...

According to [Joanna Goodrich] in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As you might expect, this ...

Using a digital signal processing module (DSP) from Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd., QinetiQ has developed a Portable Humanitarian Mine Detector (PHMD) that reduces the number of false alarms ...

According to [Joanna Goodrich] in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As you might expect, this ...

"The mine detector is among the world’s best in terms of its performance in detecting mines with the minimum amount of metal, i.e. actually fully plastic explosives," Explomet Director General Aleksey ...

ST-1 is an experimental unmanned mine detector that is being actively tested in the field. (Mykhailo Fedorov/Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine) Ukrainian innovators from the Brave1 defence ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping specialists detect land mines that have killed and maimed ...

Mine-detection dogs helping reclaim a countryside still littered with unexploded ordnance left over from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 1992-95 war, one landmine at a time. This post is also available in ...