Studies, report and country/region reports specific to landmines, UXO, IEDs – anything explosive and leftover.
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Submissions from 2020
Landmine Monitor 2020, ICBL-CMC
To What Extent Could the Development of an Airborne Thermal Imaging Detection System Contribute to Enhance Detection?, Martin Jebens; Hideyuki Sawada, Ph.D.; Junjie Shen; and Erik Tollefsen
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Issue 24.2 (2020), CISR JMU
HMA in the Gray Zone, Lt. Col. Shawn Kadlec
Seventh Mine Action Technology Workshop: A Space for Innovation, Arsen Khanyan and Inna Cruz
Cluster Munition Remnant Survey in Southeast Asia, Kimberly McCosker, Jan Erik Stoa, and Katherine Harrison
Automated UAS Aeromagnetic Surveys to Detect MBRL Unexploded Ordnance, Alex Nikulin, Ph.D.; Timothy deSmet, Ph.D.; Andrii Puliaiev; Vasyl Zhurakhov; Sofia Fasullo; Gabriel Chen; Isaac Spiegel; and Kaylee Cappuccio
On-the-Ground Information Management Tools in Northeast Syria, Suleiman Nyamwaya and Joel Ndegwa
Mechanical Improvised Explosive Device Removal in the Urban Environment, David Parry
A Guide to the Oslo Action Plan and Provisional Results of 2020 Monitoring: Survey and Clearance, Mine Action Review
Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2020, Mine Action Review
Clearing the Mines 2020: A Report by Mine Action Review for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Mine Action Review
Confidence-Building Through Mine Action on the Korean Peninsula, Guy Rhodes, Ph.D.
Landmines in America's Backyard, Ken Rutherford Ph.D.
Long-Term Risk Management Tools for Protocols for Residual Explosive Ordnance Mitigation: A Pretest in Vietnam, Katrin Stauffer and Christelle Mestre
Operationalized Management Information Systems in Iraq's DMA, Mark Steyn and Arie Claassens
The Development of a Humanitarian IED Clearance Capacity in Afghanistan, Alexander Tan
Augmented and Virtual Reality for HMA EOD Training, Allen Dodgson Tan
The Mine Free Sarajevo Project, Marija Trlin, Elise Becker, and Nataša Uršič
Iraq Programme Report 2020, UNMAS
To Walk the Earth in Safety 19th Edition (CY2019), US DOS PM/WRA
Providing IMAS Training to Local Military Forces and Mitigating Long-Term ERW Risks in Vietnam, Allan R. Vosburgh
The Lethality Index: Re-Conceptualizing IED Clearance Planning and Delivery in Iraq, Mark Wilkinson
Game-Based Learning: An Innovative and Scalable Approach to Mine Risk Education, Ta Thi Hai Yen
Submissions from 2019
Booby-traps and Anti-handling Devices: Common Tactics, Michael Cardash
Contamination in Eastern Ukraine: Observations by OSCE, Edward Crowther
Minefield Clearance and Casualties - Holland 1945 - Military Operations Research Unit Report No.7, Roly Evans
Drones in the Desert: Augmenting HMA and Socio-Economic Activities in Chad, John Fardoulis, Xavier Depreytere, Emmanuel Sauvage, and Pierre Gallien
A Guide to Non-Technical Survey, GICHD
Vietnam Ageing Study Management of Explosive Remnants of War (MORE), GICHD
Global Mapping and Analysis of Anti-Vehicle Mine Incidents in 2018, GICHD and
Long-Term Risk Management Tools and Protocols for Residual Explosive Ordnance Mitigation (Vietnam), GICHD and
National Capacities and Residual Contamination (Croatia), GICHD and
The Socio-Economic Impact of Anti-Vehicle Mines in Angola, GICHD, Kings College London, and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Landmine Monitor 2019, ICBL-CMC
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 23.2 (2019), CISR JOURNAL
Demining in Urban Centers is a Race Against Time, Pascal Rapillard and Jeremy Repond
Demining in Urban Centres is a Race Against Time, Pascal Rapillard and Jeremy Repond
Clearing the Mines 2019: A Report by Mine Action Review for the Fourth Annual Review Conference of the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Mine Action Review
Collaborative Demining Training in Cambodia, Jorge Rivero and Tom Gersbeck
The Challenges of Humanitarian Mine Clearance in Ukraine, Toby Robinson and Rosanna O'Keeffe
Practical Notes on the Application of Thermite Systems in Mine Action, Robert Syfret and Chris Cooper
Achievements and New Challenges in Mine Action, Stefano Toscano
Iraq Programme Report 2018, UNMAS
Iraq Programme Report 2019, UNMAS
To Walk the Earth in Safety 18th Edition (CY 2018), US DOS PM/WRA
IEDs and Urban Clearance Variables in Mosul: Defining Complex Environments, Mark Wilkinson Ph.D.
IED Threat Consistency and Predictability in Fallujah: A 'Simple' Model for Clearance, Mark Wilkinson Ph.D.
Submissions from 2018
Determining the Value of UAVs in Iraq, Brad Alford, Edward Curran, and Shawn Cole
Sepon Supports UXO Clearance in Laos, Saman Aneka and Micheal Valent
Advanced Geophysical Classification of WWII-era Unexploded Bombs Using Borehole Electromagnetics, Laurens Beran and Stephen Billings
Enhancing Humanitarian Mine Action in Angola with High-Resolution UAS IM, Inna Cruz, Luan Jaupi, Shadrack Kassanga Njamba Sequesseque, and Olivier Cottray
The Effects of ERW Contamination in Sri Lanka, Jennifer Dathan
Drones and "Butterflies": A Low-Cost UAV System for Rapid Detection and Identification of Unconventional Minefields, Timothy deSmet, Alex Nikulin, William Frazer, Jasper Baur, Jacob Abramowitz, Daniel Finan, Sean Denara, Nicholas Aglietti, and Gabriel Campos
Lessons from the Past: The Rapid Clearance of Denmark’s Minefields in 1945, Roly Evans
The Added Value of Integrating UAVS Into the HMA Toolkit, Shathel Fahs and Greg Crowther
Shattered Lives and Bodies: Recovery of Survivors of Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosive Remnants of War in Northeast Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières
Demining the Tajik-Uzbek Border: What Have We Learned from the Tajik Experience?, Henrique Garbino and Erkin Huseinov
Drones Supporting Mine Clearance in Northern Sri Lanka, Oliver Gerard-Pearse
Management of Residual Explosive Remnants of War in Cambodia Report, GICHD
Global Mapping and Analysis of Anti-Vehicle Mine Incidents in 2017, GICHD and
Minefield Sketch Maps in Humanitarian Mine Action, Jesse Hamlin and Luan Jaupi
The Reduction of Weapons-Related Violence: A Global Approach to Saving Lives, HI
Landmine Monitor 2018, ICBL-CMC
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 22.1 (2017), CISR JMU
Clearing Safe Spaces for Drought Affected Communities in Somaliland, Edward Lajoie and Megan Dwyer
The Hybrid Thermal Lance: A Promising New Technique for the Destruction of Landmines and UXO by Deflagration, Donald Pratt and Nick Torbet
Why is Water so Efficient at Suppressing the Effects of Explosions?, Stephen Salter and John Parkes
PPE Development and Needs in HMA, Andy Smith
United Nations Improvised Explosive Device Disposal Standards, UNMAS
To Walk the Earth in Safety 17th Edition (CY2017), US DOS PM/WRA
Submissions from 2017
Recovering The Past: A Photographic Documentary Exploring Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Ian Alderman
Developing a Hyperspectral Non-Technical Survey for Minefields via UAV and Helicopter, Milan Bajic, Tamara Ivelja, and Anna Brook
Bridging a Critical Mine Action Information Management Gap: Complex Conflict Environments, Isam Ghareeb Barzangy
Refining Explosive Safety Outreach, Geoff Carton and Laura Grindstaff
Mine Action in Burma: Building Trust and Incremental Gains, Greg Crowther, Josephine Dresner, and Michael Aaron
Interpreting Submunition Fragmentation Marks on Hard Surfaces for the Survey of Cluster Munition Strikes, Roly Evans
The Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository (CORD): 2018 Upgrades, Roly Evans
World War II Coastal Minefields in the United Kingdom, Roly Evans
Mine Detecting Rats Make an Impact in Cambodia, Cynthia Fast, Håvard Bach, Paul McCarthy, and Christophe Cox
Clearing Landmines and Building Peace in Colombia, Vanessa Finson and Giovanni Diffidenti
An Initial Study Into Mine Action and Improvised Explosive Devices, GICHD
National Capacities and Residual Contamination I Albania, GICHD
Prioritisation Policy, Procedures and Practices Relating to UXO Clearance in Lao PDR, GICHD
Leaving no one Behind: Mine Action and the Sustainable Development Goals, GICHD and United Nations Development Programme
Landmine Monitor 2017, ICBL-CMC
Demining Programme Office in the Falkland Islands - Exploitation 2017, Fenix -. Insight Ldt.
Do No Harm: The Challenge of Protecting Civilians from the IED Threat in South-central Somalia, Abigail Jones
Military-NGO Partnerships: Lessons Learned for the 8th Theater Sustainment Command's HMA Mission in Vietnam, Shawn Kadleck and Richard Calvin
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED): A Humanitarian Mine Action Perspective, Robert Keeley
MEDIAWIKI: SUPPORTING IMSMA DOCUMENTATION, Dionysia Kontotasiou and Olivier Cottray
MAG: Clearing Improvised Landmines in Iraq, Chris Loughran and Sean Sutton
Effects of Weather on Detection of Landmines by Giant African Pouched Rats, Ian McLean and Rebecca Sargisson
Using Mobile Geographic Information Systems to Improve Operational Efficiency, Data Reliability, and Access in Mine Action, Paul Rittenhouse and Lindsay Aldrich
Making Ordnance Identification Available to Everyone, Howard Rudat
An APT Demining Machine, Andy Smith
Using Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) in HMA, Andy Smith
Black Adder Disruptors, Andy Smith and William Bagley
21st Century Survey in Eastern Ukraine and the Use of Technology in Insecure Environments, Nick Torbet and Patrick Thompson
Improvised Explosive Device Lexicon, UNMAS
