Abstract
Despite the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars on high-tech research over the last few years, local humanitarian deminers still use traditional prodders and metal detectors. The biggest recent technical innovation has been mechanical vegetation clearance which was mostly developed in the field and bypassed the research route.
Recommended Citation
Gasser, Russell and Thomas, Terry
(2000)
"Developing New Technology for Humanitarian Demining,"
Journal of Mine Action
: Vol. 4
:
Iss.
1
, Article 23.
Available at:
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol4/iss1/23
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