Performance Demonstration for Humanitarian Demining - Test and evaluation of mine searching equipment in detecting mines
Christina Müller, Martina Scharmach, Berlin; Mate Gaal, Berlin und Zagreb; Dieter Guelle, Adam Lewis und Alois Sieber, Ispra
ABSTRACT Because the demining process is always connected with a danger for human beings it is necessary to make sure the proper functioning of mine searching equipment in detecting mines. The subject to detect a hidden target by penetrating physical interaction of rays or waves is similar to non-destructive testing. The non-destructive testing profession decveloped procedures to check the reliability of testing. These procedures like the performance demonstration where the successful detections are statistically evaluated against false call rates and its implementation in an industrial standard (ASME section XI appendix VIII) are used as template. A first adoption to demining was accomplished in the prescription for blind trials in the CEN workshop agreement CEN BT 126 CWA07 for test and evaluation of metal detectors. Within an ITEP project a number of blind trials were accomplished to learn about the necessary statistical basis of those trials to achieve true, reproducible and repeatable results to give guidance to selection and improvement of metal detectors.The special focus in this first investigation was on the influence of the human factor due to the different degree of experience of the operators and the influence of the soil.
Publication Source: Materialprüfung, ISSN: 0025-5300
Issue: 2003-11/12, pp -
Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag München
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