| Project Nr.: | 2.1.1.1 |
| Title: | CEN Workshop Agreement on test and evaluation of metal detectors. |
| Description: | This project covers the activities of the CEN Workshop 7 - Humanitarian Mine Action - Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors. The latter is a process for creating a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on the test and evaluation of metal detectors. It also includes training and experimental verification. |
| Aim: | To achieve comprehensive test guidelines, published as a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA), which improve the quality of metal detector test and evaluation. |
| Request: | European Commission, ITEP, CEN. |
| Category: | Detection - Metal detector |
| Type: | Methodology |
| Equipment: | N/A |
| Development: | N/A |
| Time Frame: | 2002-01-01 to 2007-12-31 |
| Place: | N/A |
| Lead Nation: | Germany/BAM (2006-2007), European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC/JRC) (2002-2005) |
| Partners: | Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, UNMAS, GICHD, CEN |
| Point of contact: | |
| E-mail: | Not available
| Status: | Archived |
| Comments: | Full meetings of the Workshop (CEN Workshop 7) were held in December 2001 and April 2002. A Drafting Working Group met in June and September 2002 to progress the CEN Workshop Agreement. The third (and final) full CEN Workshop meeting took place in December 2002, approving the bulk of the Agreement. The EC/JRC, original project coordinator, transferred the Workshop Secretariat to Germany/BAM, when it stopped all activities related to test and evaluation of humanitarian demining equipment (1.01.2006).In the course of 2007, BAM has drafted a Field User Guide for the CWA 14747 (ITEP Project 2.1.1.8), which reduces the full range of CWA 14747 tests to three key tests considered the minimum requirement for determining the best suited metal detector for given local conditions. In a separate chapter, the document also deals with metal detector features which were introduced after the publication of the CWA 14747:2003 and hence not covered by the list of original CWA 14747 tests. The CWA 14747: 2003 Field User Guide is available at the ITEP website. After consultation with the original Workshop 7 participants, CEN decided to extend the original CWA 14747 for another period of 3 years. It was republished as CWA 14747 - Part 1 in 2008.A description of the CEN Workshop process and status of the CWAs related to Humanitarian Mine Action can also be found on the GICHD website. |
| Results/Conclusions: | The first issue of the CEN Workshop Agreement on Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors (CWA 14747-2003) was published in June 2003. It was later republished as CWA 14747-Part 1: 2003 in view of the publication of the CWA 14747 - Part 2 at the end of 2008 (ITEP Project 2.4.1.2). Training and experimental verification of the CEN CWA 14747 - 2003 during a systematic test and evaluation campaign of COTS metal detectors (STEMD, ITEP Project 2.1.2.3) provided user feedback in order to review and update the 2003 document . Some first results of the experimental verification process were published in Development Tests for Measuring the Detection Capabilities of Metal-Detectors, available in the ITEP reports database. More recent experimental verification results and lessons learned can be found in the Laos, Mozambique and Croatia STEMD final reports.Work has also continued on the procedure to test the effect of problematic soils on the performance of metal detectors. Details can be found in the report Identifying and Obtaining Soil for Metal-Detector Testing and the above-mentioned STEMD final reports, all available on the ITEP reports webpage. | |