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January 2009
Publication of the CEN Workshop Agreement on soil characterization for metal detector and GPR performance
The CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) – Test and Evaluation (T&E) - Soil Characterization for Metal Detector and Ground Penetrating Radar has now been published at the CEN website. This CWA was from its conception planned to be complementary to the CWA on Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors (CWA 14747:2003) and was therefore published as the second part of the latter CWA: CWA 14747 - Part 2 : 2008. The original CWA on Test and Evaluation of Metal Detectors, first published in 2003 (CWA 14747:2003) has now been republished as CWA 14747 - Part 1: 2003, without any changes to the original text.

The CWA - T&E - Soil Characterization for Metal Detector and Ground Penetrating Radar was drafted and approved by a Workshop of representatives of interested parties, drawn from different sectors (see ITEP Project 2.4.1.2 description for more details). It provides mine action programmes, demining companies and field operators with:
  • simple procedures to assess the effects of soils on the performance of metal detectors and dual sensors, and
  • clues to recognise soils that may create difficulties to metal detectors and dual-sensors.
    It also provides people designing tests to evaluate metal detectors or dual sensors with:
  • a list of soil properties to record that can affect the performance of these detectors,
  • procedures to determine these properties,
  • relative soil comparison rules to compare and choose soils for testing, and
  • soil classifications based on the effects on metal detector performance.
    • contact: Yann Yvinec
    More info...


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