A new integrated approach for characterizing the soil electromagnetic properties and detecting landmines using a hand-held vector network analyzer

The application of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in humanitarian demining labors presents two major challenges: (1) the development of affordable and practical systems to detect metallic and non-metallic antipersonnel (AP) landmines under different conditions, and (2) the development of accurate soil characterization techniques to evaluate soil...

Electromagnetic soil properties variability in a mine-field trial site in Cambodia

In this paper, the characterization of the electromagnetic soil properties of a blind lane used in a trial for a dual-sensor mine detector is presented. Several techniques are used and are compared here; Time Domain Reflectometry, gravimetric techniques and Frequency Domain Reflection and Transmission methods. The derived soil properties are...

The new EU directive on port reception facilities: a practical design and application of a waste management plan in the port of Den Helder