Abstract
Within humanitarian mine action, progress in integrating information is manifest chiefly by the way the traditional array of survey activities have been reformed. Following the 1997 Ottawa Treaty to ban anti-personnel mines, several mine action non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) launched the Global Landmine Survey, a multi-country survey project. This initiative has helped to institutionalize the collection of social and economic data, along with contaminated-area data, to enhance the overall management of mine action programs worldwide, and in that sense has achieved a paradigm change over the erstwhile purely technical approach to mine clearance.
Recommended Citation
Benini, Aldo and Conley, Charles
(2004)
"Data Fusion for Mine Action Decision Support: An Example From Lebanon,"
Journal of Mine Action
: Vol. 8
:
Iss.
2
, Article 44.
Available at:
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol8/iss2/44
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