Objective
Specific Objectives
Statements of Needs (SONs): Establish a consolidated "statement of needs", based on a systematic analysis of results from the multinational strategy of the European Community and other users in the mine action community.
ITEP: Active support of the International Test and Evaluation Program for humanitarian demining.
Support to the ITEP Secretariat
- Host the Secretariat and staffing according to agreement with the ITEP member states;
- Provide the ITEP web server and support the management of the ITEP web pages;
- Support the catalogue of test and evaluation projects and resulting reports.
Participation to ITEP projects
- Electromagnetic (EM) characterisation of a number of soils in order to assess quantitatively the impact on the performance of metal detectors
- Lead, jointly with CEN, development of draft standards for the performance assessment of metal detectors, for later incorporation into International Standards for Mine Action;
- Lead initial assessment of the performance of ground penetrating radar as a preliminary action to the drafting of test standards;
- Test and Evaluation of sensor systems in support to EU developments sponsored by DG INFSO;
- Development of guidance for "standard targets" for test and evaluation of detectors used in the context of humanitarian demining;
- Supporting in-field tests in mine affected areas on request by researchers, industry, mine clearing organisations and Mine Action Centres, following ITEP agreements for support.
Standards: During 2002 the JRC will launch jointly with CEN an action to establish standards for test and evaluation of metal detectors through the development of CEN Workshop agreements. The JRC is acting in this context as lead, as technical and scientific reference and at the same time as the Secretariat.
These standards will be made available to the international mine action community.
Draft standards will require that aspects of operation and interaction between sensors, the targets and environmental factors will need to be verified. This verification will be executed in the context of ITEP.
Ground penetrating radar has been introduced into to the demining task in emergency situations and without consideration of its suitability to a particular situation.
Preliminary work will be conducted on GPR to assess factors that may affect performance in the context of humanitarian demining.
Support to DTIF: The JRC will continue its obligations as co-chair of DTIF and co-editor of the DTIF Journal. In this respect it will complete issue
2 of the DTIF Journal. In addition, on request of the user community and on invitation by UNMAS, the JRC will provide functional support for the technology information clearing house.
Signatures: Extend the signature catalogues for mines, standard mine-like objects and simulant mines, debris and clutter, environmental components.
JRC will use the European Multi sensor Mine-signature project (MsMs) to address this task.
Minefield Survey: Complete an assessment of the potential of air- and space-borne data for mine field survey and area reduction in South East Europe for later application world-wide, to improve the effectiveness of the management of close-in sensors and minefield clearance resources.
Assessment of applications of available technology: Deploy existing technologies to international and regional mine clearance projects in order to assess the potential for improving mine clearance in terms of safety, speed and overall effectiveness. Continued action from 2001. This task is dependent on the availability of resources and requests by DGs.
Networks: Develop the humanitarian demining European Network of Excellence ARIS as a network within the European Research Area.
Communications:
Provide Internet access to reference information of relevance to demining R&D and demining action. This will include the distribution of measured data (signatures) and test results, and support of the design and maintenance of the ITEP web site. The ARIS network, which was established earlier in FP5 with support from DG INFSO, will continue to be developed with an emphasis towards the European Research Area needs.
Information Technologies
GIS: Integrate the GIS into the digital map archive owned and managed by ECHO;
IT: Improve the harmonised information collection for South-East Europe;
IMSMA: Integrate digital information and collected data with the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA).
Planned Deliverables
1) Establishing consolidated SONs
D1.1: Workshop
Facilitated by the JRC in collaboration with the Directorates General RELEX, AIDCO, and INFSO together with representatives from UNMAS, GICHD and involved MACS with the aim to establish a consolidated procedure. Target completion:
April 2002;
D1.2: Report
Covering the discussions and agreed conclusions of the workshop (D1.1). Target completion: July 2002;
D1.3: Database
In conjunction with UNMAS, International MACCs and the GICHD, establish a living database of operational needs. Target completion of first version: Sept'2002.
2) Support to ITEP
D2.1: Support to the ITEP Secretariat
Reports at 3-month intervals relating to;
- Hosting and staffing of the secretariat according to MoU, participation in Board meetings and other administrative actions;
- Status and actions taken in support to the ITEP web site;
- Status of T&E inventory February, May, August, November 2002;
D2.2: Participation to ITEP projects;
D2.2.1: Electromagnetic Characterisation of Soils
- Organisation of three expert meetings during 2002;
- Publication of a technical note on the electromagnetic properties of soil February 2002;
- Inventory of information on soil properties available at a global scale June 2002;
- Consolidated work plan November 2002;
D2.2.2: Support the continuing process to establish standards, in collaboration with CEN
- Publish report of December 2001 workshop. March 2002;
- Publish draft standard document - or in the absence of agreement - a status report on this action - December 2002;
D 2.2.3: Assessment of GPR
- Publish invitation to ground penetrating radar (GPR) developers and operators January 2002;
- Testing and evaluation of the available GPR May - October 2002;
- Publish first draft of standard document relating to the assessment of GPR for humanitarian demining applications. November 2002;
D2.2.4: Test and Evaluation of Systems;
Provide access to test and evaluation facilities and support the test action of sensors and systems for civilian demining in response to requests from industry, researchers, mine action centres and demining organisations Execution of this work only if funded as third party work;
D2.2.5: Surrogate Targets
- Organise one expert meeting March 2002;
- Publication of a technical report on the findings identified during the expert meeting June 2002;
- Produce a consolidated work plan November 2002;
D2.2.6: Support to In-Field Tests in Mine Affected Countries
Execution of this work only if funded as third party work by the interested industries, mine clearing organisations and Mine Action Centers.
3) Establishment of Standards
D3.1: First Expert Meeting
- Organization of an expert meeting. March 2002;
D3.2: Report on the First Expert Meeting
- Publication of a technical report after the first meeting on the recommendations made by the expert groups. June 2002;
D3.3: Second Expert Meeting
- Organization of an expert meeting. September 2002;
D3.4: Report on the Second Expert Meeting
- Publish the recommendations of the expert groups relating to the composition of the standard and its possible incorporation in IMAS. December 2002.
4) Support to DTIF
D4.1- Support the activities of the technology information clearing house.
Deliver report on the activity during 2002, December 2002;
D4.2 Establish a dedicated website
Together with JMU, UNMAS, and GICHD. Build and contribute to maintenance actions for the DTIF web site. Report of activity. November 2002;
D4.3 DTIF Journal
Publish one issue of the DTIF Journal during 2002 (Collaborative action with CCMAT). September 2002.
5) Extension of signature catalogue
D5.1: Multi Sensor Measurement campaign
Continue the MsMs campaign for the collection of signatures of mines and other relevant objects and publish on the signature web page of the JRC as available.
Report on status of MsMs data November 2002;
D5.2 Publish signature data from partners
Dependent on data availability, publish data, or where appropriate link to other data sets. Report on available data sets from partners, October 2002.
6) Assessing the possible improvement for mine field survey
D6.1 Investigate possibility to improve minefield survey
Conduct experiments to verify the potential improvement to minefield impact and technical surveys through the use of airborne and space borne imagery. There is a GIS based system in communication to IMSMA (GICHD information management system) that will provide input to be verified in a real mine infected area using close-in measurement systems to confirm the overview from the general survey information.
Report on the work conducted and provide conclusions and recommendations for future action. December 2002.
7) Deployment of existing technologies
D7.1 Report on application of existing technologies
Deploy existing technologies into the field (for example: thermal infrared camera, imaging metal detector, opto-acoustical sensing device). This would be a joint effort with partners from national research centres, experts and field users from a mine-affected country. It will only be undertaken if additional specific credits and appropriate manpower resources can be identified.
Publish final report documenting the findings, lessons learned and recommendation for future development actions.
8) Communications
D8.1 Internet information on project
Operate the websites of ITEP, ARIS, MSMS, JRC APL Signature Database, and the EC Humanitarian Demining (principal URL http://demining.jrc.it(opens in new window)) and maintain the quality and currency of information available.
Report on investigation of how the humanitarian demining R&D network can support the objectives of the European Research Area. June 2002.
9) Information Technologies and GIS:
D9.1: GIS: Integration
Integrate the GIS into the digital map archive owned and managed by ECHO, and examine its applicability to the International mine action users of IMSMA;
D9.2 IT: Harmonised information
Report on improvements to the harmonized information for South-East Europe, and how the improved information can be integrated into information management systems.
10) Specific deliverables to DGs:
These will include the reports arising from the work on the topics under the headings of SON, Support to ITEP, Draft Standards and DTIF
11) As a result of the research:
Contribute to the state of knowledge in two technology areas, through the publication of new research results:
D11.1: Publish paper - relating to an aspect of quadropole resonance;
D11.2: Publish paper - relating to the possible application of electrostatic sensing to humanitarian demining.
Summary of 2001 Deliverables: 31/12/2001
Test and Evaluation activities.
Report on T&E undertaken or supported by the Unit. It includes the report of the International Pilot Project for Technology Co-operation (IPPTC); Report of activity to support the UN in the selection of a metal detector and the assessment of detection problems related to the PROM-1 in operational scenarios. (Consolidated within the MINETEST final report).
Final reports for the MIMEVA, MINESIGN and SIGEX projects which include work supported by budgets from DG INFSO.
MIMEVA was a study to determine ways to produce replica mines which were inert (and therefore safe) for use in the testing of sensors and systems for civilian demining.
MINESIGN comprised measurement campaigns to acquire electromagnetic signatures of mines and mine-like objects. SIGEX was a project to provide the means to disseminate the mine signature information measured by the JRC and other organisations, freely to researchers in the field.
International Test and Evaluation Program (ITEP)
Support to ITEP Secretariat;
Hosting and staffing of the secretariat according to MoU: Report on activities during year 1;
Hosting one Board meeting and participating to a second. Minutes of meetings.
Hosting of and participating to Executive Committee meetings according to needs. Minutes of meetings;
The activity is described in an overall context report.
Inventory of T&E capabilities in South Eastern Europe
Workshop (October) in the region in order to discuss findings and consolidate recommendations for the implementation of a regional strategy. Distribution of final report (December).
Regional network of T&E capabilities
Presentation of the preliminary view of planning for the inventory workshop to the Standing Committee of Experts on Technologies (States Parties to the Ottawa Convention) in Geneva in May
Presentation of the strategy for implementation a regional network to the Stability Pact session in October 25/26 at Bucharest. Deliverable: Record of meeting
Execution of T&E measurements
T&E activities will be conducted according to ITEP list of priorities and requests received from industry, research organisations and deminers: The list of future ITEP activities was published in September 2001.
In 2001 T&E activities were completed which had been organised before full supervision process of ITEP was defined). Deliverable outputs: reports on IPPTC and detection of PROM-1 mines.
Detection of mines by infra-red sensors through active heating of the mined environment. Deliverable: Copy of paper
Support to DTIF
Co-organization of a workshop on technology for mine action with the aim to provide an opportunity for a dialogue between developers and users of demining technology. This workshop took place in July 2001. Report issued.
Support to the DTIF Journal as co-editor. The first issue of DTIF Journal has been made. It is available at URL: http://www.maic.jmu.edu/dtif/(opens in new window)
Establishment of standards
Serving on the Technical working group for standards in humanitarian demining of CEN. Delivery of reports of the meetings in May 2001, in Brussels, and September 2001, at Ispra.
CEN joint workshop: Kick-off meeting and 1st Technical meeting (December). Delivery: Meeting Report from Kick-off meeting.
Extension of signature catalogue
Execution of the Multi Sensor Measurement campaign for the collection of signatures of mines and other relevant objects. Resulting data has been published on the signature web page of the JRC (URL: http://demining.jrc.it/msms/(opens in new window))
Publishing of signature data of partners in this effort has taken place over the year. The work will be reported in a deliverable: Interim Project Report.
Information Technologies
Harmonisation of mIne-action information.
Deliverable: Harmonised minefield and victim data for South-East Europe: a preliminary analysis. Shepherd, Peckham, Eriksson, Jelenic, Grujic, Technical Note No. I.01.67 July 2001
Analysis of mine impact in South-Eastern Europe. The deliverables are a Geographic Information System to support mine action and a Decision Support System.
Maintenance of EU mine Action web-site.
Output Indicators and Impact
The expected results from this project relate to the provision of supporting data contributing to the support to further development, and evaluation, conducted at an European level on sensors and systems for demining. It provides information and management tools specifically aimed to improve planning and execution of demining action.
From the above deliverables a number may be highlighted specifically:
- Contribution to the further development of a common methodology to identify the needs of mine affected areas;
- Application of the Statements of Needs and demining information to improve the focus of European R&D into demining sensors;
- Support to the co-ordination of international R&D activity and the provision of common test standards;
- Support to the optimisation of demining systems through development and application of objective standards;
- Provision of test facilities - in the frame of an international collaborative action, together with the above actions - to facitite evaluation;
This should lead to tools capable of improving the safety and cost effectiveness of the demining process to the benefit of mine action programmes;
- Initial scientific investigation of the potential benefit of airborne/space borne survey with potential to improve the planning process of mine action.
Summary of the project
The JRC focuses its project on the following key functions:
- Impartial technological advice and support to DG RELEX, DG AIDCO and the services of the Commission involved in humanitarian demining and co-ordinated in the Commission's Mine Action Co-ordination Group (MACG);
- Support as specified in the International Test and Evaluation Program
(ITEP) MoU; including co-ordination, execution, test and evaluation of tools;
- Support to the development of improved tools for minefield survey and mine detection as requested by the "Regulation" of 23rd July 2001;
- Support the validation and exploitation of results from projects supported by DG INFSO during FP4/FP5;
- Development of standards for test and evaluation in the context of humanitarian demining.
Rationale
This work plan is based on the preamble to the regulation (EC) No 1724/2001 of the European Parliament and Council of 23 July 2001 which states at paragraph (11),
"Scientific research should be intensified with the aim of developing technologies to facilitate mine detection and identification of the affected areas with greater precision."
In support of this requirement, JRC is fully committed to helping DG RELEX achieve better visibility, transparency and efficiency in EU mine actions and supporting DG INFSO's efforts to deliver better technology.
There are many stakeholders involved in mine actions. JRC helps the EU to provide a coherent contribution that fits in with the global effort. To achieve this, JRC is also working with other organisations - particularly the United Nations, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Mine Action Centres in afflicted countries, NGOs, as well as other demining organisations and industry developing improved tools.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet access
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors optical sensors
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography cartography geographic information systems
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications radio technology radar
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