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Enhancing Mine Action Operations With High-Resolution Uas Imagery, Gichd Dec 2016

Enhancing Mine Action Operations With High-Resolution Uas Imagery, Gichd

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Following a two-year feasibility study, The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) last year moved its unmanned aircraft system (UAS) program into its operational testing phase, working with The HALO Trust and MAG in Angola to analyse the real-world benefits that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) can bring to demining activities.


Advanced Training On Ammunition Identification And Disposal In Afghanistan, Gichd May 2016

Advanced Training On Ammunition Identification And Disposal In Afghanistan, Gichd

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GICHD delivered an advanced level training course on ammunition identification and disposal in Kabul, Afghanistan on 16-29 April 2016. The focus of the course was to build on existing skillsets and improve the knowledge of the characteristics of NATO and other ammunition encountered in Afghanistan.

By not offering a formal IMAS explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) qualification and associated testing protocols, the course curriculum allowed flexibility. On the first day the program was customised to the assessed needs of the attendees, based on the feedback from interviews with them all. As a result the curriculum allowed, for the practicing of alternative …