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Number of reports found: 1
| Project Nr.: | 1.2.4 |
| Title: | Development of the APOPO-PARADIS GIS |
| Description: | APOPO has developed an original method of explosive detection using African rats. This NGO is currently working in Mozambique on the clearance of live minefields. PARADIS (a Prototype for Assisting Rational Activities in Demining using Images from Satellites) is a GIS aimed at improving the planning of humanitarian demining campaigns. PARADIS was first developed for the Belgian Armed Forces Bomb Disposal Unit (SEDEE-DOVO). Several field tests conducted with APOPO in Mozambique from October 2005 to July 2007 showed that the PARADIS system could be useful to record, monitor and fine-tune the APOPO clearance process. However, the field trials also showed that the system required to be further developed in order to fit the APOPO operational procedures. This task started in September 2007 and a first functional version of the system was installed at the APOPO premises in January 2008. After this experimental period the PARADIS system was fine-tuned based on the user feedback and the final version was installed at the APOPO premises in Mozambique in October 2008. |
| Aim: | Field tests of the PARADIS system tailored to the APOPO needs. |
| Request: | APOPO |
| Category: | Survey |
| Type: | Test and Evaluation |
| Equipment: | PARADIS Field and Planning interfaces (based on respectively ESRI ArcPad and ArcView) with PC, PDA, and GPS software, applied to the APOPO African Rat Detection System |
| Development: | Prototype/Demonstrator |
| Time Frame: | 2006-10-01 to 2008-10-31 |
| Place: | Mozambique |
| Lead Nation: | Belgium |
| Partners: | APOPO |
| Point of contact: | Sebastien Delhay |
| E-mail: | sdelhay@elec.rma.ac.be |
| Status: | Trials/tests completed |
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