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demining
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40 sectionsContents
- Land mines
- Goals
- Military mine clearance
- Humanitarian demining
- Contamination and clearance
- Economics
- Conventional detection methods
- Prodders
- Metal detectors
- Dogs
- Mechanical
- Mine clearing machines
- Smart prodders
- Detection methods under development
- Electromagnetic
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Infrared and hyperspectral
- Electrical impedance tomography
- X-ray backscatter
- Explosive vapor detection
- Honey bees
- Rats
- Other mammals
- Plants
- Bacteria
- Chemical
- Bulk explosive detection
- Nuclear quadrupole resonance
- Neutrons
- Acoustic/seismic
- Unmanned ground vehicles
- Unmanned aerial vehicle
- Personal protective equipment
- Removal methods
- Humanitarian
- Military
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|South Korean soldiers searching for land mines in Iraq thumb|A US soldier clears a mine using a grappling hook during training.
Demining or mine clearance is the process of removing land mines from an area. In military operations, the object is to rapidly clear a path through a minefield, and this is often done with devices such as mine plows and blast waves. By contrast, the goal of humanitarian demining is to remove all of the landmines to a given depth and make the land safe for human use. Specially trained dogs are also used to narrow down the search and verify that an area is cleared. Mechanical devices such as flails and excavators are sometimes used to clear mines.