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Project Nr.:2.4.2.13
Title:Evaluate the performance of dual-sensor detectors in humanitarian demining as compared to stand-alone metal detectors
Description:The trial is a reliability trial in which the performance of commercially available dual-sensor detectors (probability of detection and false alarm rate) is assessed and compared to 1) the corresponding stand-alone metal detectors and 2) new metal detectors recently brought on the market and/or under development.
Aim:Assess the ability of the added ground penetrating radar system in a dual-sensor mine detector as well as its capacity to reduce the false alarm rate in comparison to a stand-alone metal detectors (MD). Evaluate detector efficiency criteria.
Request:German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Armed Forces, Mine Action Authorities, GICHD, UNMAS
Category:Detection - Multi-sensor
Type:Test and Evaluation
Equipment:Dual sensor detectors offered for testing and available conventional metal detectors as well as metal discriminating detectors (ALIS, Ceia MIL-D1, Ebinger EBEX 422 GC, Minelab F3 S, Vallon VHM3 CS, Vallon VMH 1, Minelab E-TRAC).
Development:COTS, Prototype
Time Frame: 2008-03-01 to 2010-07-31
Place:Bundeswehr Technical Center for Protective and Special Technologies (WTD 52), Oberjettenberg
Lead Nation:Germany
Partners:Belgium, The Netherlands
Status:Trials/tests completed but no final report published at the end of the ITEP Program. For more information on this project, please contact
Comments:
  • Experienced detector operators were used from the German and Belgian Army, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) and BACTEC-Lebanon.
  • The project further serverd to validate the methodology and procedures proposed in the dual-sensor test guidelines (ITEP Project 2.4.1.3) for particular local conditions and available techniques.
  • The project also assessed the potential use of metal discriminating detectors as compared to conventional metal detectors and dual-sensor detectors.
  • This project is the trial which was previously planned to be executed in 2007 in Croatia ( ITEP Project 2.4.2.12) and later cancelled. However, the trial methodology was revised during 2008 - 2009 by the ITEP Working Group on Test and Evaluation of Multi Sensors (ITEP WGMS).
  • During this trial a complementary trial took place in which a stand-alone ground penetrating radar was assessed in a role of follow-up detector to a metal detector (ITEP Project 2.2.2.7).
    • Results/Conclusions:
  • The trial took place from the 21st of September to the 16th of October 2009 and was carried out in a purpose-built test facility (ITEP Project 7.2.13) by the BWB WTD 52.
  • A description of the trial set-up, data processing as well as results for the ALIS dual-sensor detector and a stand-alone GPR as follow-on to a metal detector can be found in a 2010 International Humanitarian Demining Symposium article.
  • A trial summary including a general overview of the DS trial and summarised results was published in July 2010. Although the trial was originally designed to provide information on the capabilities of dual-sensors for the humanitarian demining community, it was decided after the trial not to release the full trial data set and the detailed data analysis due to the fact that DS detectors also have a potential use in areas other than humanitarian demining.


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