Minefield Indicators and Analytical Mine Contamination Assessment in Scientific Projects and in Practice

The key factors of the application of the airborne remote sensing technology for humanitarian demining are the ninefield indicators or the indicators of mine presence and indicator of mine absence and the analytical assessment of the contamination by the land mines. The basic simple concept of the minefield indicators was given in (1), were it was related to the ordinary physical features of the artificial and natural objects in the mine suspicious area. Similar concept was used in other works, while in (2) were introduced signatures of the minefields indicators and additional contextual features. The signatures depend on the sensors used for the remote sensing and this aspect was thoroughly considered in (2). The contextual features can be derived by the analytical assessment of the terrain contamination by the land mines, addition of the formalized knowledge enables efficient use of the indicators for the support of the decision making and for suspicious area reduction.