Humanitarian Demining and the Cloud: Demining in Afghanistan and the Western Sahara

Schmitz, Peter; Heymans, Johannes; Claassens, Arie; Carow, Sanet; Knight, Claire

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“…(The HALO Trust n.d.). This pre-demining activity, known as "non-technical survey," has been greatly improved by technology, including satellite and airborne surveillance, modern geographical information systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS and services such as Google Earth, although gaps remain (Schmitz et al 2018). It is then augmented by "technical survey," which includes physically assessing for mines in a defined area.…”

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Eliminating Hidden Killers: How Can Technology Help Humanitarian Demining?

Dorn

2019

Stability: International Journal of Security and Development

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Despite twenty-first-century technological advances by Western militaries for demining and the removal of improvised explosive devices, humanitarian demining relies mostly on mid-twentieth-century technology. While international legal efforts to curb the global use of landmines have been quite successful, constraints on humanitarian demining technology mean that unfortunate and preventable deaths of both civilians and deminers continue to occur. Developing devices and technologies to help human deminers successfully and safely carry out their work is a major challenge. Each phase of the physical demining process (i.e., vegetation clearance, mine detection, and removal) can benefit from the development of demining technologies. However, even with the prospect of "smart" demining technology, the human aspect of supervision remains a crucial challenge. Although current research and development hold promise for the future of humanitarian demining, the barriers to progress in the field are more than technical. The prioritization of military operations, a lack of coordination between governments and humanitarian actors, a tendency towards secrecy, and an underlying lack of funding are just some of the roadblocks to eliminating the yearly death toll associated with humanitarian demining, in addition to other impacts on post-conflict societies. This paper calls for new ideas, renewed innovation, and new sources of governmental and non-governmental support for this often-neglected aspect of international security. stability * Defence Studies, Royal Military College, CA

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Eliminating Hidden Killers: How Can Technology Help Humanitarian Demining?

Dorn

2019

Stability: International Journal of Security and Development

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Review of approaches to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, remote sensing and geographic information systems in humanitarian demining: Ukrainian case

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Collaborative Custodianship through Collaborative Cloud Mapping: Challenges and Opportunities

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Behr

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Collaborative custodianship refers to an arrangement where a number of custodians work together to produce integrated datasets for a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), e.g. local authorities contributing address or street data to a national SDI dataset. Collaborative cloud mapping allows for ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand, configured and tailor-made mapping with resources shared between various entities collaborating on a specific initiative, such as an SDI or for disaster management. This paper presents the results of a workshop in South Africa during which case studies from the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria of collaborative custodianship of address data were presented, and OpenStreetMap as a case study of collaborative cloud mapping. Subsequently, challenges and opportunities for implementing similar initiatives in the context of the South African SDI were debated in break-away sessions. The results from these sessions were analysed using the PESTEL framework.</p>

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Humanitarian Demining and the Cloud: Demining in Afghanistan and the Western Sahara

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Eliminating Hidden Killers: How Can Technology Help Humanitarian Demining?

Eliminating Hidden Killers: How Can Technology Help Humanitarian Demining?

Review of approaches to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, remote sensing and geographic information systems in humanitarian demining: Ukrainian case

Collaborative Custodianship through Collaborative Cloud Mapping: Challenges and Opportunities

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