D-BOX: Demining tool-BOX for humanitarian clearing of large scale areas from anti-personal landmines and cluster munitions
Start date
01 January 2013End date
31 December 2015Project website
ViewOverview
D-BOX was a European project funded to tackle the burning issue of anti-personal landmines and cluster munitions remaining from armed conflicts. It provided Demining stakeholders with innovative, “easy to use” and low cost solutions interfaced and/or integrated in a comprehensive toolbox.
This “smart” toolbox could be used during all demining activities to help operators and end users chose the most suitable answer for optimal planning and preparation to low cost, safe and “easy to use” tools for specific tasks during different steps of the demining activities adapted for varying scenarios and conditions.
Funding amount
£244,000
Funder
FPT – Security Framework
Team
Principal investigator
Dr Raffaella Guida
University of Surrey
See profileLead researchers
Dr Salvatore Savastano
Postgraduate Research Student, University of Surrey
See profileDr Salman Khan
Lead Researcher
Outputs
S.Savastano, R.Guida, “Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Long Range Demining Area Reduction”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ’15, pp.1909-1912, Milan (Italy), 2015.