Physicists have now built a low-cost land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components – including some sourced from online auction sites.

Exciting a land mine may not sound like a good idea, but developers of the Seismic Landmine Detection System are doing just that. A group of researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute in ...

New technology for land mine detection. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 03 / 160318090811.htm. Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum.

Physicists build inexpensive land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 06 / 100616122156.htm ...

New land mine detection facility created. Warning signs against land mines are posted on fences in the Golan Heights, February 27, 2007.

A prototype MRead mine-detection device CSIRO While metal detectors are useful for detecting land mines, they can be fooled by buried metallic debris … plus some mines don't contain any metal.

17-year-old Marian Bechtel might live in Pennsylvania, where land mines are not a common occurrence, but she has still managed to invent the prototype for a brand-new minesweeper.

Experts approximate that more than 110 million land mines--hidden disasters waiting to happen--are buried around the world in nearly 70 countries. And at the rate people are currently working to ...

Baur and Frazer's research focuses on plastic land-mine detection. Their submission used thermal technology to detect plastic land mines in countries such as Afghanistan, where land mines were ...

In Afghanistan, a soldier's next step may be his last. From border to border, that tortured country is littered with countless land mines, relics of wars past. Never deactivated, they lurk just ...

Local surveyors are commemorating March 15 to 21 as "National Surveyors Week" in various ways, including a proclamation and a gift of a land-mine detector.