SEGJ Technical Conference


Deployment of Dual Sensor ALIS for Humanitarian Demining in Cambodia


Abstract
Since 2002, we have developed a new hand-held land mine detection dual-sensor ALIS. ALIS is equipped with a metal detector and a GPR, and it has a sensor tracking system, which can record the GPR and Metal detector signal with its location. ALIS is the only one mine detection system in the world which can visualize the GPR image by hand scanning. After several tests of ALIS in mine affected courtiers, a long-term evaluation test in real mine fields has started in Croatia in winter 2008. Then, operation of ALIS in mine fields in Cambodia started in summer 2009. Two sets of ALIS have been operated in Cambodia and more than 40 antipersonnel mines have been detected. We visited a small village where mine clearance operation was over by ALIS, and found that the site was returned to farmers and rice is planted.