MINESEYE MK II

Hendrik Ehlers showing Professor Peter Choy the objects of the treasure hunt exercises: some of the real AP-Mines MgM deminers are confronted with on a daily base. The last in the row is an Anti-Tankmine.

 

The remote controlled MAXX sweeps the PNCAS prototype over the test area precisely.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

The general objectives are:

  • to improve the performance of a metal detector for working in soil environment that current metal sensors have difficulties;
  • to provide a man-portable APL detector with demonstrable advances in operational parameters by the integration of the improved metal detector with a chemical analyzing sensor based on nuclear technique for bulk explosive detection; and
  • to investigate the performance of the component system on a mobile vehicle platform.

These general objectives will lead to the development of MINESEYE - a system which provides rapid search with a Digital Induction Pulse Sensor (DIPS) with data processing capability to locate a buried metallic object among soils that might be magnetic or conducting, and then uses a Pulse Neutron Chemical Analysis Sensor (PNCAS) to detect and confirm the presence or absence of explosive substances at the location in question.
The goal is that every positive detected by the combined system should be a real positive.

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In this chapter you will find additional information on the following topics:

• Project summary
• Project Objectives

• Current Activities
• Technology

• Partnership

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