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Hidden Killers 1998: The Global Landmine Crisis Annex B: A Sampling of Demining Technology Resources

Research & Development

Organization/ Company	Address/ Telephone/ Fax	Website/ E-mail	Focus
American Technologies, Inc. (OES Division)	500 Wynn Drive, Suite 504 Huntsville, Alabama 35816 Tel: 205 830 4847 Fax: 205 830 4153	stine@hiwaay.net	Bacteria sensor
Argonne National Laboratory	9700 S. Cass Avenue, B-308 Argonne, Illinois 60439 Tel: 630 252 3293 Fax: 630 252 4007	http://www.anl.gov	Nuclear, chemical, biological, microwave, electromagnetic, infrared, acoustic
Auburn University	Department of Electrical Engineering 200 Broun Hall Auburn Univ., Alabama 36849-5201 Tel: 334 844 1800 Fax: 334 844 1809	http://www.eng.auburn.edu	Signal processing, neural networks
Battelle National Security Division	505 King Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43201 Tel: 614 424 4916 Fax: 614 424 3296	shubert@battelle.org	Imaging ordnance locator using GPR (1) w/ new rod antenna
Belgian Joint Research Program	Avenue de la Renaissance 30 1000 Brussels, Belgium Tel: (32) 2 737 6470 Fax: (32) 2 737 6472	http://jupiter.ulb.ac.be:8080 /mines/home.html	Detection robotics and microwave neutralization
BGT Bodensswewerk Geratetechnik GmbH	Postfach 10 11 55 88641 Uberlingen, Germany Tel: (49) 75 51 89 40 75 Fax: (49) 75 51 89 62 74	ingo.schwaetzer@bgt.de	Mine detection
BIGAT GmbH	Alt-Stralau 52-54 10245 Berlin, Germany Tel: (49) 30 29 37 31 41 Fax: (49) 30 29 37 31 16	bigat@recyclers-info.de	Mechanical demining equipment
Biopraxis, Inc.	P.O. Box 910078 10655 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 200 San Diego, California 92191 Tel: 619 452 2413 Fax: 619 452 2416	N/A	Biosensors
Blackhawk Geometrics	301 Commercial Rd, Suite B Golden, Colorado 80401 Tel: 303 278 8700 Fax: 303 278 0789	http://www.blackhawkgeo. com	Neural network modeling
Brookhaven National Laboratory	SSN Division, Bldg. 197C BNL, Upton, New York 11973 Tel: 516 344 3812 Fax: 516 344 5266	http://www.lanl.gov	Nuclear, acoustic
Brooks Innovative Technologies	80 Hartington Drive Madison, Alabama 35758 Tel: 205 830 0795	jbrooks@hiwaay.net	GPR testing
Cambridge Parallel Processing, Inc.	16841 Armstrong Avenue Irvine, California 92600-4918 Tel: 714 261 8901 Fax: 714 724 8399	http://www.cppus.com	Real-time data processing for multi-sensor protection
Carnegie Mellon University	Field Robotics Center 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Tel: 412 268 8525 Fax: 412 268 5576	http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ ri~home/projects.html	ID and removal of unexploded mines
Chalmers University of Technology	Department of Applied Electronics 412 96 Goteburg, Sweden Tel: (46) 31 772 1780 Fax: (46) 31 772 1782	http://www.ae.chalmers.se/"	GPR
Colorado State University	Artificial and Neural Networks Lab Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 Tel: 970 491 5792 Fax: 970 491 2466	http://www.colostate.edu	AI (2) and neural networks
Computing Devices Canada	3785 Richmond Road Nepean, Ontario, Canada K2H 5B7 Tel: 613 596 7000 Fax: 613 820 5081	http://www. computingdevices.com	Information processing
Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing	Warrandi Road, The Levels SA 5095 Australia Tel: (61) 8302 5021 Fax: (61) 8302 3124	http://www.cssip.edu.au	Data and information fusion
Danish Demining Research Forum	CAT Science Park Frederiksborgvej 399 P.O. Box 30 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Tel: (45) 46 77 59 19 Fax: (45) 46 32 19 19	http://www.catscience.dk/ ddrf/ddrf.html	GPR and odor detection device
Defence Research Establishment, Suffield	Box 4000, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada T1A 8K6 Tel: 613 996 2020	http://www.crad.dnd.ca/	Detection, neutralization, protection
Defence Science and Technology Organization	Land Operations Division PO Box 1500 Salisbury, South Australia 5108 Australia Tel: (61) 8 8259 5184 Fax: (61) 8 8259 5055	http://www.dsto.defence. gov.au/esrl/lod/index.html	GPR and sensor fusion
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)	Defense Science Organization 3701 North Fairfax Drive Arlington, Virginia 22203 Tel: 703 696 2297	http://www.darpa.mil/DSO/ rd/index.html	Chemical detection
Department of Small Arms, Special Equipment and Security, Ministry of the Interior	Savska cesta 31, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: (385) 1 612 2413 Fax: (385) 1 51 1263	http://www.rasip.fer.hr/~d/ mine_project.html	Robotic ground probe
Dr. Koehler GmbH	In der Alten Kaserne 10 39288 Burg, Gemany Tel: (49) 39 21 91 960 Fax: (49) 39 21 98 45 16		EOD ö Europe
Dynetics, Inc.	1000 Explorer Blvd Huntsville, Alabama 35806 Tel: 256 922 9230 Fax: 256 922 9255	http://www.dynetics.com	Sensor fusion
Ecole Polytechnique FEdErale de Lausanne (EPLF)	Laboratoire de Microinformatique (LAMI) 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel: 41 21 693 2641 Fax: 41 21 693 5263	http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lami/ detec/rodemine.html	Robotics and sensor vehicles
EIC Laboratories	111 Downey Street Norwood, Massachusetts 02062 Tel: 617 769 2099	http://www.eiclabs.com	Explosive vapors detection
European Commission Joint Research Centre	Space Applications Institute Via E. Fermi PO Box TP 440/112 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy Tel: (39) 332 789298 Fax: (39) 332 789536	http://www.jrc.it/sai	Point of reference for all technical aspects of mine action for the European Commission; facilitator of new tools for mine detection and identification, and mine field survey; development, operation and maintenance of GIS for mine actions; clearing house for tools for the end-user community.
FFG Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft mbH	Werftstrasse 24 24939 Flensburg, Germany Tel: (49) 461 48 12 0 Fax: (49) 461 48 12 100	info@ffg-flensburg.de	Mechanical demining equipment
Fraunhofer Institut fur Chemische Technologie	Joseph von Fraunhofer Strasse 7 76327 Pfinztal-Berghausen, Germany Tel: (49) 721 46 40 112 Fax: (49) 721 46 40 111	sch.@ict.fhg.de	Mine detection
Georgia Institute of Technology	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0250 Tel: 404 894 2900 Fax: 404 894 4641	http://www.ece.gatech.edu/ research	GPR
IABG -- Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH -- Defense Analysis/Systems Engineering	Einsteinstrasse 20 85521 Ottobrunn, Germany Tel: (49) 89 60 88 24 81 Fax: (49) 89 60 88 40 15	schuck@aibg.de	Digital mine documentation system
Idaho National Laboratory	2351 N. Boulevard, Room 310 Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 Tel: 208 526 9745 Fax: 208 526 5327	http://www.inel.gov	Chemical, electromagnetic, robotics, data fusion
Institut Dr. Forster ö Prufgeratebau GmbH & Co. KG	Postfach 1564 72766 Reutlingen, Germany Tel: (49) 58 27 87 Fax; (49) 58 27 50	http://77home.t-online.de/ home/foerster.headq foerster.headq@t-online.de	Mine detection equipment
InVision Technologies	7151 Gateway Blvd. Newark, California 94560 Tel: 510 739 2400	http://www.businesswire. com/cnn/invn.htm	Quadrapole resonance
King's College London	Chemistry Department Strand, London,WC2R 2LS, UK Tel: (44) 171 873 2358 Fax: (44) 171 873 2810	http://www.kel.ac.uk/	NQR (3)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	One Cyclotron Road, 44B Berkeley, California 94720 Tel: 510 486 6536 Fax: 510 486 7678	http://www.lbl.gov	Nuclear, chemical, biological, microwave, electromagnetic, acoustic, data fusion
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	LLNL MS-189 P.O. Box 808 Livermore, California 94551 Tel: 510 422 5235 Fax: 510 422 5252	http://www.llnl.gov	Chemical, electromagnetic, infrared, acoustic, robotics, data fusion
Los Alamos National Laboratory	P.O. Box 1663, MS A133 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Tel: 505 667 3416 Fax: 505 665 3644	http://www.lanl.gov	Nuclear, electromagnetic, robotics
MAK System GmbH	Falckensteiner Strasse 2 24159 Kiel, Germany Tel: (49) 431 39 95 02 Fax: (49) 431 39 952966		Mechanical demining equipment
Metratek, Inc.	9858 Main Street Fairfax, Virginia 22031 Tel: 703 293 9040 Fax: 703 293 9335	http://ourworld.compuserve. com/homepages/metratek	GPR
Monash University	Physics Department Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia Tel: (03) 905 3595 Fax: (03) 905 3637	http://www.physics.monash. edu.au	Acoustic impulse detection
National Defence Research Establishment (FOA)	Department of Radar Systems, FOA 36 P.O. Box 1165 S-581 11 Linkoping, Sweden Tel: (46) 13 37 80 00 Fax: (46) 13 37 81 00	http://www.foa.se	GPR (see Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Naval Research Laboratory	Chemistry Division Washington, DC 20375 Tel: 202 767 3340	http://www.nrl.navy.mil/ MTADS/html	NQR
New Mexico Tech	Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center 801 Leroy Place Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Tel: 505 835 5312 Fax: 505 835 5630	http://www.nmt.edu/index. html	Mine detection and removal
Nomadics, Inc.	1730 Cimarron Place Stillwater, Oklahoma 74705 Tel: 405 372 9535	http://www.nomadics.com	Chemical detection
Non Volatile Electronic (NVE)	11409 Valley View Road Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 Tel: 612 829 9217 Fax: 612 996 1600	http://www.nve.com	Giant mageto-resistance sensor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	One Bethal Valley Road Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6252 Tel: 423 574 5925 Fax: 423 574 8162	http://www.ornl.gov	Nuclear, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, robotics, data fusion
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales	Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse 31055 Toulouse, Cedex 4, France Tel: (33) 5.62.25.25.25 Fax: (33) 5.62.25.25.50	http://www.cert.fr	GPR

Notes

1. GPR = Ground Penetrating Radar
2. AI = Artificial Intelligence
3. NQR = Nuclear Quadropole Resonance

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