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	The U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program in Iraq
		RONCO Consulting Corporation, the State Department's demining contractor, has been tasked to implement this component of the plan.
		Demining efforts will continue long after Coalition Forces are redeployed and will take a concerted effort by the U.S. and the international community to build capability within the nation of Iraq.
		Initially, all Mine Action (including both military clearing and civilian demining) is under the direction of the Coalition Joint Task Force Commander.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/fs/22184.htm (1320 words)

	Demining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Demining is the process of removing landmines or naval mines from an area.
		Currently, the main methods used for humanitarian demining on land are manual detection using metal detectors and prodders, detection by specially trained mine detection dogs, and mechanical clearance using armoured vehicles fitted with flails or similar devices.
		The plants would aid demining by indicating the presence of mines through color change, and could either be sown from aircraft or by people walking through demined corridors in minefields.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demining (1607 words)

	PROGRESS IN HUMANITARIAN DEMINING: TECHNICAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES
		The new U.S. Demining 2010 Initiative aspires to a five-fold increase in current resources, but $13 billion ($1 billion per year through 2010) is only about 1/3 of the UN estimate of what it would cost to remove all the landmines currently in the ground and likely to be laid by 2010.
		The humanitarian demining problem is characterized by an enormous variability in the nature of explosive ordnance to be removed, and in the type of terrain and vegetation.
		For their part, deminers would need to accept that a fairly substantial percentage of new methods might work only in certain terrain or under specific conditions, or might be practical only after several iterations of field trial and technology modification.
	www.fas.org /rlg/de-mining.htm (6446 words)

	Humanitarian Demining
		The goal of humanitarian demining is to remove lingering remnants of war, allowing refugees to return home, schools to be reopened, land to be used for farming and critical infrastructure to be rebuilt.
		Humanitarian demining is a critical first step for reconstruction of post-conflict countries.Its goal is to remove lingering remnants of war, allowing refugees to return home, schools to be reopened, land to be used for farming and critical infrastructure to be rebuilt.
		First a team of deminers assesses the landmine situation in terms of its social and economic impact on the country and determines if a mine action program is both necessary and feasible.
	www.landmines.org /crisis/humanitarian.cfm (1091 words)

	Just the Facts
		The Humanitarian Demining Program is managed by the Commander-in-Chief (CINC) of each regional U.S. military command -- in the case of Latin America, by the U.S. Southern Command -- and by the Defense Department's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
		Part of the demining effort is also funded through the State Department's Global Humanitarian Demining program, which covers the cost of some equipment and detector dog teams.
		The report states that “The five components of humanitarian demining are mine awareness, infrastructure development (such as building-up a national mine action center), civil-military cooperation, demining training and victims assistance.
	www.ciponline.org /facts/demine.htm (374 words)

	SFOR Informer Online: Reforming demining in BiH
		The demining troops of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AF of BiH) are living in exciting and interesting times as proposals for a restructured and integrated demining unit are presented.
		This gave the deminers on the ground a chance to have their views heard and reminded them that they play a vital role in creating a stable and sustained peace and that their dangerous work is appreciated.
		There is currently a demining proposal being staffed by HQ SFOR, which intends to reshape the deminers of AF BiH, this has currently received agreement by all three parties at the DRC level.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/166/p06a/t02p06a.htm (643 words)

	Team-aware Robotic Demining Agents for Military Simulation
		Simulated robotic demining agents coordinate to breach a path through a minefield; demining is modeled as a distributed optimization problem in which the robots strive to minimize an abstract cost function.
		Although researchers have drawn comparisons between robot demining and foraging [Goldberg and Mataric1997], path breaching cannot be modeled as a simple foraging task because the goal of the exercise is not to optimize on number of mines removed but to assure coverage of a connected path.
		To date, most of the demining research effort has been applied towards humanitarian demining, the process of systematically clearing unused minefields without the hazard or time pressure of being in a combat zone [Havlík and Licko1998].
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~softagents/iaai00/iaai00.html (3731 words)

	Demining Research at the University of Western Australia
		Demining is the process of removing landmines, booby traps and unexploded ordnance (UXO) so that affected land can be safely re-settled.
		Humanitarian Demining requires that the entire land area be free of mines.
		They are proud of their demining uniforms, which are a symbol of status and didn't want to be seen in a dirty uniform or ruin them by lying on the ground.
	www.mech.uwa.edu.au /jpt/demining/info/guide.html (1299 words)

	DeTeC - Demining robots, anti-personnel mine removal
		There is a future for demining robots, but the work is difficult and a better coordination of all researchers in the world is required.
		The Spitfire demining concept is proposed by Caterpillar and has been developed by BOA Sweden: the patented "rotator-tool" is covered with rotating heads adequate for rock-crushing.
		Demining teams cannot justify the expenses for such robots, sold to affluent police departments of large cities.
	diwww.epfl.ch /lami/detec/rodemine.html (2561 words)

	Demining Efforts: Hurrican Mitch Complicates Clearence (Photo)
		It organizes the international team of technical advisers, supervisors, and demining trainers; supervises demining operations; participates in the design, implementation, and logistic coordination of national demining plans; and certifies that destruction and verification adheres to safety procedures and standards.
		While demining activities are well advanced, Hurricane Mitch complicated mine clearance, especially in Nicaragua, where previously cleared areas have to be recertified, and where crews restoring infrastructure cannot work until the presence or absence of mines washed down by the hurricane's floodwaters has been confirmed.
		The demining operations were an international effort supported by the governments of Brazil, whose army donated the demining equipment, and of Guyana.
	www.dialogo-americas.com /July2000/English/Demining_E_photo.html (2763 words)

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		The Humanitarian Demining IWG has refused to allocate any NADR funds to Egypt in light of the $1.3 billion of Foreign Military Financing funds Egypt receives from the U.S. and the apparent reluctance on the part of the Egyptian government to support its own demining effort with this assistance.
		While the U.S. is studying the feasibility of using emergency demining funds for deploying contractor mine-detecting dogs, the Humanitarian Demining IWG is apparently deferring a decision pending the completion of a study of the landmine problem in Guinea Bissau.
		While a national demining center and a mine awareness campaign have been initiated, the focus of the U.S. program seems to be on the provision of heavy equipment and the training necessary to operate and maintain this equipment in demining operations.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/uslm/USALM007-08.htm (5834 words)

	Afghan Army Leads Demining Operation - DefendAmerica News Article
		The demining operation consisted of three main areas: the entry control point, the demining zone and the company area of operations.
		Second-degree deminers, who are also rated as instructors are qualified to identify and determine which neutralization method is best for disabling each mine or munition.
		Applying their knowledge and training, the deminers quickly assessed the situation and determined that the IED could be safely detonated in place.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/aug2005/a082905la1.html (999 words)

	Robotics Institute: Robotic Demining
		In 1993 alone, 100,000 land mines were picked up and 2.5 million land mines were placed on the ground, mostly in areas of eastern Europe (especially Bosnia) and southeast Asia.
		Demining is a dangerous and costly operation but robots can pinpoint the location of mines, bypassing a significant portion of the danger and cost to people.
		Although their prototype robots were designed to follow a pseudorandom path, we believed that we could build our knowledge of advanced coverage techniques into similarly low-cost robots.
	www.ri.cmu.edu /projects/project_220.html (986 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - US Demining Initiative:
		To respond to this global humanitarian catastrophe, the United States is calling for and will lead a global campaign, the 'Demining 2010 Initiative,' to eradicate all landmines which threaten civilian populations by the year 2010.
		The objective is to accelerate global humanitarian demining efforts and our goal is to increase roughly by a factor of five - to $1 billion a year - the public and private resources devoted worldwide to identifying and clearing landmines posing threats to civilians by the year 2010.
		At this meeting the participants will: make firm commitments for additional demining support; develop mechanisms to better coordinate demining operations; and develop a global strategy to remove all landmines that pose threats to civilians by 2010.
	www.acronym.org.uk /20init.htm (481 words)

	Third United States Army
		Here Omanis are taught how to prepare an area for demining, as well as the procedures for safe demining, which includes using 25-pound blast suits and a variety of metal detectors.
		Another area of the Omani demining program that is being upgraded is the storage of minefield records and archives on computers.
		While the majority of the training the American soldiers are providing is building on the RAO deminers current tasks, the Omanis are being shown a new way to protect their fellow countrymen from landmines - mine awareness.
	www.arcent.army.mil /news/archive/2001_news/article_7.html (1642 words)

	Humanitarian Demining and Robotics, by Y. Baudoin, M. Acheroy, M. Piette, J.P. Salmon (3.2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Assessment of the mean daily productivity of a deminer is 20 to 50m², taking into account the false alarms generated by metallic inert objects or by the high iron content of the soil.
		For the humanitarian demining purposes, a high CE is required (a CE of 99.6% is required by UN).
		The structure may be mounted with pieces from bicycles; the electric actuator and the electronic control are protected by an epoxy casing and could be reused in case of explosion.
	maic.jmu.edu /journal/3.2/focus/baudion_robot/robotics.htm (2828 words)

	Eritrea Demining / News / Home - International Campaign to Ban Landmines
		Habtom Seguid, the deputy general manager of the Eritrean Demining Agency (EDA), the national demining authority in Eritrea, confirmed that his agency issued a "stand-down" order to government mine clearance teams in early April as a result of the government’s seizure of demining vehicles.
		According to Marty Steel, a UNDP demining advisor, “Government clearance was instrumental in allowing for the return of almost 20,000 IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in the Shilalo area in February.
		Senior UN demining officials, requesting anonymity, said that the confiscation of demining vehicles and the technical advisors departures will have significant short-term implications for the future of demining efforts in this highly mine-contaminated nation.
	www.icbl.org /news/eritrea_demining (981 words)

	A Different Kind of Disaster: Demining in Nicaragua
		After the war, there was a limited demining program carried out in Mosquitia by the Nicaraguan Army.
		Because the demining program was incomplete, the Miskito Indians have continued to find mines scattered throughout the province.
		When they found them too close to their homes, they dumped them in the one place they thought no one would step on them — in the river.
	www.redcross.org /news/in/cntlamer/010509demining.html (1394 words)

	U.S. Sponsors Humanitarian Demining Training in South Caucasus, 09/08
		Azerbaijan has received $688,000 in humanitarian demining assistance from the United States since fiscal year 1999, a portion of which will fund the joint humanitarian demining training with Armenia and Georgia, as well as the purchase of modern demining equipment.
		The emphasis of U.S. humanitarian demining assistance to Azerbaijan has been to help its internally displaced persons from the war safely return to their homes in regions that were mined.
		The United States was among the first nations to initiate humanitarian demining assistance when, in late 1988, it began supporting clearance of the vast numbers of landmines laid in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation.
	www.usembassy.it /file2000_09/alia/a0090815.htm (913 words)

	WKU API \| Research \| Humanitarian Demining
		Until recently, humanitarian demining was not as well-known as its military counterpart.
		describes humanitarian demining as “the detection and removal (or destruction in situ) of landmines from civilian areas, after the war or conflict is over.” This process can be performed over months or years.
		Parrish, The Technological Aspects of Humanitarian Demining in draft special report AP 239 STC (97) 9, Committees of the North Atlantic Assembly, available at http://hq.nato.int /related/naa/docu/1997/ap112stc.htm, September 1997.
	www.wku.edu /API/research/en/demining.html (699 words)

	DeTeC HOMEPAGE - The Demining Technology Center at the EPFL
		The Demining Technology Center has been supported in 1996-97 by the Foundation Pro Victimis in Geneva, by the Swiss Departments of Foreign and of Military Affairs, and by the EPFL.
		We quickly realized at the beginning of the project that the basic problem in humanitarian demining are still the sensors, possibly with the exception of specialized applications.
		Over time we concentrated our efforts on a more realistic, albeit more limited, scenario (given the deminers' requirements, the time frame and the resources involved) in which a GPR is used by itself on alarms previously identified by a standard metal detector, and the radar data is made widely available.
	diwww.epfl.ch /lami/detec (2309 words)

	* iMi - iNTERNATIONAL ΜINE iNITIATIVE * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Successful completion of the demining project in village Arnoun in Nabatiyeh region and the accolade from the Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Michel Sleiman.
		The deminers are able to give the greatest gift of life to the people of Sarajevo, by removing the mines from the fields
		Every morning she greets the deminers that clear from the mines the area where she lives, so that she may be able to go to school and not have the unfortunate lack to step on a mine that has been there since the civil war.
	www.demining.gr /news.asp (1232 words)

	Roots of Peace - Demining in Croatia
		In July 2000, after raising funds from private-sector donors (which were matched by the International Trust Fund), Roots of Peace supported demining projects in both Čista Male and Čista Velika, enabling children to once again run freely and farmers to tend to their fields.
		Roots of Peace funds were used to complete demining of over 233 m2 of agricultural land in the region.
		The demining of the Bibinje field was dedicated to the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, for the United Nation’s support of demining initiatives around the world.
	www.rootsofpeace.org /demine/croatia.htm (1068 words)

	Roundtable on Humanitarian Demining: Can We Stop the Slaughter of Innocents? - Council on Foreign Relations
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		This roundtable took stock of the existing effort in the United States (military and nonmilitary) and through the United Nations to reduce the huge number of civilian casualties from antipersonnel mines.
		Participants considered the possible use of economic instruments to promote innovation and better use of demining technologies in the field.
	www.cfr.org /project/80/roundtable_on_humanitarian_demining.html (411 words)

	RONCO: Mine/UXO Clearance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		RONCO personnel are now "fine tuning" the MDD teams and deminer skills, while they conduct live minefield operations.
		Next, over a three-week period additional training ensured that the survey teams and deminers were familiar with RONCO demining operating procedures and made ready for field deployment using MDD technology and safety procedures.
		RONCO is now in the process of "fine tuning" the MDD teams and deminer skills in the effective use of MDD technology in live minefields.
	www.demining.com /hmc/oman_impact.html (400 words)

	RONCO:
		Use of a highly effective integrated approach to mine and UXO clearance involving manual deminers, mine detection dogs, and mechanical equipment to increase efficiency, and ensure safety and quality;
		Integration of local staff, who are trained and employed by RONCO as deminers, dog handlers, medics, machine operators, supervisors, and laborers to build the indigenous capacities of the host nations in which we operate; and,
		Support from our corporate offices in the United States, ranging from procurement and purchasing services to the broader context of programs including their management, and client coordination and satisfaction.
	www.demining.com (358 words)

	Humanitarian Demining Training Center -- U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Programs
		Through its Humanitarian Demining Program and Emergency Demining Initiative, the list is expected to expand as the United States approves more applicant countries each year.
		In May 1998, Congress established a matching-donation fund in the amount of $28 million for the Slovenian International Trust Fund for demining and victim assistance in the Balkans.
		In December 2001, the U.S. and the Government of Mozambique agreed to establish a Quick Reaction Demining Force (QRDF), based in Mozambique, to respond quickly to humanitarian demining crises around the world.
	www.wood.army.mil /hdtc/ushma.html (1089 words)

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