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Signal & Image Centre

PARADIS

A Prototype for Assisting Rational Activities in Demining using Images

from Satellites

Sébastien DelhayVinciane Lacroix

Idrissa Mahamadou

Signal & Image CentreRoyal Military Academy - Brussels

http://www.sic.rma.ac.be/Mars 2004

Signal & Image Centre

PARADISAim: improving the planning of

Humanitarian Demining campaigns

• Why?

• Campaign managers, field operators (deminers)

• Mine Action Community

• Solutions: • Centralizing the information in a GIS

• Using satellite imagery as regional / local map

• Integrating missing tools into PARADIS

• For whom?

• Large areas => a lot of information to manage

• No map available

• Some tools are not available in existing systems

Signal & Image Centre

Structure of the system

Country ~ :1,000,000

Region 1: 250,000 => 1: 50,000

Field 1: 10,000 => 1: 1,500

Advancement ~ 1: 500

Planification interface (MAC)

PARADIS

Field interface

Signal & Image Centre

Data (1/3)• Satellite imagery and its interpretation

soil

streams settlestracks forestslakes annual crops

• Region:1 pixel = 10m x 10m

• Used as a topographic map of the zone of work

• Interpretation= roads, rivers, fields, etc seen by experts on the image

• Region and field scales

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Data (2/3)

• Field scale: 1 pixel = 1m x 1m

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Data (3/3)• External data: IMSMA, EOD/IS

PARADIS

EOD/ISIMSMA

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1. Mission announcement

Campaign follow-up

PARADIS PARADIS

UXO

Roads state

Minefields

???

2. Field survey- going to the field with useful information- collecting data on the field

Signal & Image Centre

Field survey – Road Map tool

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Field survey – EOD reports

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Campaign follow-up

PARADIS

UXO

Roads state

Minefields

3. Planning

- managing teams- tasking- reporting

- setting priorities on zones- getting an overview of the situation

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Campaign follow-up

PARADIS

UXO Minefields

4. Technical survey- Field: clearing minefields, roving

- MAC: following and managing work progress

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Technical Survey - Minefield tool

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Technical Survey - Minefield tool

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Current method

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PARADIS: which advantages?• No data loss

• No information entered twice

• “Automatic” filling of reports

ex: X,Y coordinates can’t be inverted

Data are extracted from the database by the system

• No data corruptionData are centralized in a GIS database; digital data

ex: Incident report => Reconnaissance report => EOD report

• Intelligent management toolsex: the tools presented today!

Signal & Image Centre

ConclusionsPARADIS is:

A GIS that enables the user to better manage a Humanitarian Demining campaign following the different tasks assigned to deminers

Aimed to be used by demining organisations during their missions in developing countries

Useful for the campaign manager and the field operator

Will be distributed free of charges to the Mine Action community