LANDMARC - making land-mine detection and removal practical
While diplomats work to restrict the manufacture, sale, and use of land mines worldwide, a massive cleanup effort is needed to find and destroy the estimated 100 million land mines still buried in 65 countries. Land mines left behind from wars worldwide are one of the century`s main unsolved problems of war and remain the focus of humanitarian mine detection and removal primarily in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. A combination of technologies from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is being directed toward the most daunting challenge presented by land mines - quickly determining the location of each individual land mine in an area so all of them can be removed. The Laboratory`s patented micropower impulse radar and advanced imaging technologies are being combined in a practical system called the Land-Mine Detection Advanced Radar Concept, or LANDMARC, that is making pivotal advances in meeting the challenge of land-mine detection.
- OSTI ID:
- 563435
- Journal Information:
- Science and Technology Review, Journal Name: Science and Technology Review; ISSN STREFR
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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