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'An Australian company has achieved the "holy grail" of landmine detection,
developing technology which it says can definitively tell if hidden explosives
lie underground.
Those looking to build technology capable of scanning for explosives, rather
than for the metal in landmines, have searched for a solution for more than two
decades, Nick Cutmore of tech company MRead said.
Around 6,000 people are killed and wounded every year by landmines, despite the
international adoption of the
Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty nearly three decades
ago.
Cutmore, the firm's chief technology officer, said the company has developed a
device similar to a metal detector that uses magnetic resonance to detect
explosive compounds.
"[There's] nothing around in current technology that can look into the ground
and tell you that there's absolutely explosive there and count the number of
explosive molecules present," he said.
"That's exactly what we do."
"The closest analogy that you could think of in your daily life is the MRI scan
in a hospital, where you basically have radio waves going into you as the
object, and the radio waves that come back help to form the image of that scan.
We do something similar," Cutmore said.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
