The changing scene of mine clearance

The slow and painstaking process of manual demining is a simple, standard process which seems to have survived almost unchanged since the 1940s. Now humanitarian mine clearance as we know it has been with us since the 1990s, and during that time the approaches to mine clearance have been subtly changing. In addition, the mine clearing community has not been passively waiting for new technologies, but has been developing techniques that will exploit what technologies they have. As a result there have been changes, and these changes may have an effect on the technologies and equipment that mine clearers are going to need in the future.