Résumé :
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The activities of the SCI-256 Task Group “Route Threat Detection and Clearance Technologies” focus on applicable countermeasures for the threat of explosive devices such as landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), by investigating the physical and operational potential and limitations of techniques for detection and neutralisation of route threat. In previous demonstrations and tests of the SCI-256 Task Group, the technologies of ground vehicle based change detection and Non-Linear Junction Detection (NLJD) were investigated. The findings of these activities were reported in Part I and Part II of the SCI-256 End Report. In October 2015, the SCI-256 Task Group conducted demonstrations of methods and techniques for inspecting culverts on the presence of explosive hazards at the Norra Kulla test terrain of the Swedish EOD and Demining Centre SWEDEC, near Eksjö, Sweden. In these demonstrations various methods and techniques were shown, including inspection of routes with culverts by military working dogs (some equipped with a camera), detection of command wires by dismounted soldiers, inspection of the entrance and interior of culverts by UGVs and UAVs with visual and NIR cameras, inspection of changes in the interior of a culvert by a ground penetration radar from the road surface (in change detection mode) and with LIDAR systems, and the identification of threats in a culvert with a SWIR hyperspectral imaging system. The findings of these demonstrations, focussing on the potential of the methods and techniques to enhance the safety of the soldiers, to increase the speed of the inspection and to raise the assurance of the detection, are reported in the report at hand.
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