Detection of Explosives and Landmines: Methods and Field Experience / Edition 1

by Hiltmar Schubert, Andrey Kuznetsov

Overview

This ARW is the third NATO-sponsored workshop on Explosives Detection and Humanitarian Demining. The previous events were • Detection and Destruction of Anti-Personnel Landmines Moscow, 1997 • Explosives Detection and Decontamination of the Environment Prague, 1997. Over the last decade applied research in Humanitarian Demining has made progress to some extend, but according to the tremendous tasks of Demining and the lack of scientific methods for practical detection of explosive devices, research activities are still of the same importance than ever before. Concerning countermeasures against terrorism the detection of explosives is one of the keyfactors, but the practical applications are not sufficient solved. An international exchange of research results are therefore urgent, to find out the most promising measures for application. The coincidence of this ARW and the terrible disaster of New York and Washington may demonstrate the importance of this task. In consequence the explosive device detection technologies can make a major contribution to collective, family and individual security. In developed countries, these technologies provide a strong deterrent and preventative measure against terrorist threats. In less developed regions, they can improve individual, institutional and state security, lessening the insecurity that motivates many terrorists acts. The elimination of landmine threats is just one of many ways of achieving this. However our attempts to meet the extremely difficult technical challenges posed by landmine and UXO contamination are inevitably leading us to new technological approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402006937
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/2002
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #66
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Chemical Methods for the Detection of Mines and Explosives.- Concept of a Combined Mobile Device for Explosives and Landmines Identification Based on Timed Neutron Source and Electromagnetic UHF Waves.- Detection of Nanogram Amounts of Explosives.- Humanitarian Demining: Sensor Design and Signal Processing Aspects.- Electro-Optical Land Mine Detection.- Decision-Taking Procedure for Explosives Detection by Nuclear Technique.- Detection of Explosive Vapors in Ambient Air by Ion Nonlinear Drift Spectrometry Method.- Trace Detection of Components Emanating from Hidden Explosives.- Landmine Detection with an Electronic Nose Mounted on an Airship.- Detection of Semtex Plastic Explosives.- HPM / IR Detection of Landmines: Review and Update.- The Operational Experience and Prospect of Development of the Devices for Detection of Explosive Substances by the Thermal Neutron Radiation Analysis Method.- Characterization of Chemical Sensors for the Detection of Explosives — Development of Standards.- Explosives Localisation and Pre-ldentification Based on UHF Electromagnetic Waves.- A Neutron-Gamma Method and Apparatus for Detection and Identification of Hidden Objects in Brick (Concrete) Walls.- 1. Practical Issues in Manual Demining: Implications for New Detection Technologies.- 2. Technology and the Landmine Problem: Practical Aspects of Mine Clearance Operations.- The High Efficiency Complex for Detection of Landmines.- Detection of Anti-Personnel Landmines using Microwave Radiometry Techniques.- Analysis of Performance of a System for Explosives Detection in Airline Baggage.- Sensorics of the German Mine Detection System, MMSR.- The Problem of Military TNT in NQR Mine Detector.- Detection of Nitrogen-Containing Substances by Means of a Small Size Accelerator.- Methods ofBuilding a Database of Radiolocation Characteristics of Explosive Substances for their Localization and Identification.- Radiation Beam Technologies in Detection and Destruction of Explosives.- Methodology and Field Equipment for Detection of Explosives, Drugs and Other Substances of Organic Origin.