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– Team to Share Data and Outcomes of In-the-Field Testing in Ukraine of the World’s First Cloud-Based AI-Powered Drone Imagery Analysis Tool for Demining and its Ability to Modernize Surveying – AVENTURA, FL – November 1, 2023 – Safe Pro Read More …
The International Mine Action Standards have ensured confidence in mine action efforts around the world for over 20 years, since their initial endorsement by the UN inter-Agency Coordination Group on Mine Action in 2001. In setting the standard for field operations Read More …
The second edition of the GICHD Ukraine Ordnance Guide is intended to provide a basic explosive ordnance recognition guide for qualified EOD operators in Ukraine conducting mine action activities. It may also be used by trained survey staff. While an Read More …
Around 160,000 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine need to be examined for the presence of explosives, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar has said. “Some 160,000 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine today need to be Read More …
By Lieutenant Colonel Robert Friedel, GICHD BACKGROUND The widespread use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has been documented extensively by the mine action (MA) sector over the last decade; accompanying this trend is the use of home-made explosives (HMEs). Although Read More …
For the first time in the thirty years of mine action in Afghanistan, as part of an initiative of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), in June 2018 a mixed-gender demining team was deployed by the Danish Demining Group Read More …
The ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) in Phnom Penh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) to assist national mine action authorities in the Asean region. Prum Suonpraseth, executive director Read More …
Vietnam, as one of the countries most affected by bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from wartime, always strongly supports efforts at national, regional and international levels to solve consequences, ensure people’s lives and boost socio-economic development at Read More …
A group of four Swiss army officers is set to help a United Nations agency in Geneva with its humanitarian demining activities. The Federal Council (executive body) on Friday agreed that the Swiss soldiers can help set up an information Read More …