| Project Nr.: | 2.1.1.8 |
| Title: | Reliability model for test and evaluation of metal detectors. |
| Description: | Verify a proposal for optimum reliability trial design and evaluation strategies for test and evaluation of metal detectors under realistic field conditions. |
| Aim: | Achieve a realistic and affordable standard procedure for reliability testing of metal detectors allowing to select the best suited device for specific application cases. |
| Request: | Users of Metal Detectors |
| Category: | Detection - Metal detector |
| Type: | Methodology |
| Equipment: | Different types of metal detectors. |
| Development: | N/A |
| Time Frame: | 2005-05-01 to 2006-12-31 |
| Place: | BAM-Berlin, CROMAC-Center for Testing, Development and Training (HCR-CTRO) Benkovac test facility in Croatia |
| Lead Nation: | Germany |
| Partners: | CROMAC - Center for Testing, Development and Training (HCR-CTRO), German Research Project HuMin/MD (ITEP Project 2.1.1.7) |
| Status: | Archived |
| Comments: | This project is a continuation of ITEP Project 2.1.1.2 which was archived in 2004.The main trial took place from the 9th to the 31st of May 2005 at the CROMAC-Center for Testing, Development and Training (HCR-CTRO) Benkovac test facility. Results of this trial were discussed during a Round Table discussion held in Berlin, December 2005. Additional trials at the Benkovac test site in Croatia were organised during October 2006 and the final project results were discussed at the January 2007 BAM-ITEP Workshop.BAM stopped all activities related to test and evaluation of humanitarian demining at the end of 2007. |
| Results/Conclusions: | The doctoral thesis of M. Gaal provides an overview of the trials, together with detailed descriptions and discussion of the trial design and obtained results. The focus of the thesis is mainly on the maximum detection height measurement and the detection reliability test.Other results can be found in the articles Reliability Tests for Demining and Trial Design for Testing and Evaluation of Metal Detectors Used in Humanitarian Landmine Clearance . The experiences collected during the execution of two reliability model projects (ITEP Project 2.1.1.2 and ITEP Project 2.1.1.8) and the STEMD metal detector evaluation project (ITEP Project 2.1.2.3) were summarised by BAM in the Field-user Guide for the CEN Workshop Agreement on Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors (CWA 14747:2003). The latter Field User Guide 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: maximum detection depth in soil, reliability (blind) test, and sensitivity profile (footprint). 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. Furthermore, a software package to process metal detector reliability trial test data was also developed. |