Talk:Demining

message: *Demining research at University of Western Australia and the site map in particular
:*This page details what research is still needed.
:*This page is on how to improve safety for deminers
An internal link to Bomb disposal could probably be of use.
--Drdan 15:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Good links

message: This seems incorrect:
ORIGINAL
which are sensitive enough to pick up most mines but which also yield about one thousand false positives for every mine[Demining Research].
Should this INSTEAD say this
which are sensitive enough to pick up most mines but which also yield about one PER thousand false positives for every mine[Demining Research].
OR this
which are not very cool at all....peace man!
The original seems incorrect.
-- Multivac02 20:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow the link given and you find "Only about one in every thousand signals detected will belong to a mine or UXO, this high rate of false readings is generally due to metal fragments such as shell casings littering the battlefield."  In other words, 99.9% of the time, the metal detector is alerting you to a tin can. Dave (talk) 07:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Errors

message: ORIGINAL
Mechanical clearance
Special machines effectively combine mine detection and removal into one operation. In the past, these machines were applied in both mine clearance and demining but are now generally only used for demining. They can be used to verify land that is not expected to be contaminated or as an extra layer of security after an area has cleared by another method, such as dogs.
ISSUE
Actually, the US Army still uses and is continuing to develop mechanical clearance devices.  So "now generally used only for demining" is incorrect.  Specifically, mine roller systems are being developed, deployed and refined for military mine clearance.
For Reference see the Pearson Engineering web-site at www.pearson-eng.com
98.166.116.145 (talk) 23:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ANOTHER CORRECTION

message: The pictures of protective cloathing and the robot are not for use in de-mining!  They are both equipment for bomb disposal.  I will remove the pictures.  
The recent addition of the remote controlled vehicle for detection should hardly be mentioned at all!  It is a prototype that does not remove the threat (at least not according to the entry).  At most it could be considered as a automated detection device under a separated heading between manual and biological detection measures.  --Drdan 15:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual errors 

message: The section under "Landmine sense vehicle" seems poorly written and confusing. I cleaned up the paragraph a bit, but then there's this:
"Now-a-days, in order to face new challenges, every system is automated as it requires less manual operations. So every field prefers automated control systems, especially giving tremendous importance to electronic systems for accurate control, as they are flexible, reliable and economical.    
   
In the present scenario of war situations, unmanned systems plays very important role to minimize human losses. Increased usage of land mines as a devastating weapon to harm both defense personnel and civilians has caused concern in recent times."
I'm deleting that, because it seems out of place, unless someone knows what else to do with it.
Frogs 02:41, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing language 

message: A rate will not reach a goal; with out supplemental information. "$1 billion per year would be sufficient to completely demine globally" doesn't have any context
.....so would $1 per decade if, all new mines were banned, and given sufficient time like several millennia.
A rate can also reach a goal when compared a second rate, for instant "$1 billion per year would be sufficient to completely demine globally" if the new mines introduced to the system (planet earth) per year is less than a $1 billion (in removal costs)
I don't know an end date (or a started date) for the stated rate or a rate to compare it to. Else I would have fixed it. Larek (talk) 18:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A train traveling at 80 mph, will reach Washington DC. 

message: Hello,
I want to ask, if this interwiki-Link is correct. I removed the Link, because the russian article links to Mine plow. So I think, the russian article does not deal with demining. Otherwise a Bot added this link immediately after I removed it --Joschi90 (talk) 21:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  interwiki ru 

message: Why is this article categorized in the :Category:NASA technology spinoffs?— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 19:09, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NASA tech spinoff? 

message: [31] is a dead link, see http://acfnewsource.org.s60463.gridserver.com/index.html
Add this to the plant section  http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009012.html "The Death of the Land Mine-Detecting Flower JULIA LEVITT, 11 NOV 08"
"Aresa Biodetection" is a wiki page that could be linked to this page.
ChloeDaddy (talk) 03:04, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plant section 

message: Acording to the introduction half the info is missing. Where is all about the sweeping of naval Mines ?--WerWil (talk) 00:13, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made an edit to fix this problem. --Albany NY (talk) 20:30, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  incomplete or false Lemma 

message: Hi, I am removing several links, and listing others here as questionable.
Questionable: Mine Advisory Group. It's a good group, but seems to be a special interest or lobbyist-type group. 
Questionable: APOPO. Seems to be SPAM.
Questionable: European Union in Humanitarian Demining. Seems to be a university research project that ended in 2005.
I'm removing Mineseeker Operations because it's SPAM.
I'm removing Demining with hero rats because it's a dead link.
I'm removing Manual Mine Clearance because it's a website similar to Flickr.
Overall, the article seems based on NGOs' websites instead of reliable sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lacarids (talk • contribs) 23:47, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Several "External Resources" 

message: Perhaps Mine Kafon may be mentioned ?
KVDP (talk) 07:38, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mine Kafon

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message: It's very strange to see the mechanical clearance section placed in the humanitarian demining section. It talks almost exclusively about military vehicles used to remove mines and specifically says they don't meet the UN standard for humanitarian demining. It seems to set out like this exclusively because today this kind of military mine clearance isn't often done under fire anymore but I really don't think that's enough to call something a humanitarian effort. If something is being done by active service military forces, using military vehicles and isn't clearing mines to humanitarian standards it really should be considered a military effort even if the engineers are working in secured areas. Especially when you consider why devices like mine flails are/were used - because they are radically faster than humanitarian mine efforts which allows for acceptably safe paths to be cleared for military vehicles promptly, even if that leaves large numbers of mines undetonated. When put into that context; where military purposes are being put way above total mine clearence there's no way that this can be considered a humanitarian effort, even if the military contributes to such efforts at times.109.153.3.240 (talk) 08:27, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
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