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TIRAMISU : Comprehensive toolbox for humanitarian clearing of large civil areas from anti-personal landmines and cluster munitions - Integration Project
Clearing large civilian areas from anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions is a difficult problem because of the large diversity of hazardous areas and explosive contamination. A single solution does not exist and many mine action actors have asked for a toolbox from which they could choose the tools best fit to a given situation. Some have built their own toolboxes, usually specific to some precise tasks, such as clearance. The TIRAMISU project aims at providing the foundation for a global toolbox that will cover the main mine action activities, from the survey of large areas to the actual disposal of explosive hazards, including mine risk education. ...
Résumé
Clearing large civilian areas from anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions is a difficult problem because of the large diversity of hazardous areas and explosive contamination. A single solution does not exist and many mine action actors have asked for a toolbox from which they could choose the tools best fit to a given situation. Some have built their own toolboxes, usually specific to some precise tasks, such as clearance. The TIRAMISU project aims at providing the foundation for a global toolbox that will cover the main mine action activities, from the survey of large areas to the actual disposal of explosive hazards, including mine risk education. The toolbox produced by the project will provide mine action actors with a large set of tools, grouped into thematic modules, that will help them do their job. These tools will have been designed with the help of end-users and validated by them in mine affected countries. To reach the level of expertise needed the team includes organisations that were involved in some of the most important European and international research projects in mine action of the last fifteen years. The partners will build on their past experience of this topic, their long tradition to work with each other, and the strong links they have forged over the years with mine action centres and mine action authorities, demining companies and non-governmental organisations, to bring a toolbox that will represent a step forward in mine action by being the basis for a unifying, comprehensive and modular integrated solution to the clearing of large areas from explosive hazards. The philosophy of the project is to concentrate most of its efforts, not on already existing technology, but on the most mature technologies and methods that are still to be fielded and on promising and innovating solutions even if they may require more work to be fielded. The main role of ANAGEO in TIRAMISU is to develop methods and tools for the Land Impact Survey and the Non-Technical Survey in the field of geographic databases, remote sensing and GIS-based Decision Support Systems.
Collaboration
| Royal Military Academy | (Belgium) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: RMA will coordinate the project; will lead the Toolbox Requirements and Management part of Tiramisu. | ||
| DLR- National Research Center for Aeronautics and Space | (Germany) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: DLR-IMF will participate in developing tools for Land Imact Survey and non Technical Survey including the provision of airborne campaigns. DLR-HR will participate in the development of tools for close-in detection. | ||
| Institute of Systems and Robotics | (Portugal) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: ISR-UC will lead the development of Tools for close-in detection focusing its work in the areas of robotics, chemical sensors; and sensor fusion for landmine detection. | ||
| CSIC- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones | (Spain) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: CSIC will lead the Tools for Training development and participate in all the other modules including dissemination and exploitation. | ||
| University of Catania | (Italy) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: UNICT will participate in Tools for Technical survey development (MAV, GIS & GNSS) and in the development of an intelligent probe and for navigation methods for mobile robots. | ||
| University of Genoa | (Italy) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: DIMEC leads and coordinates the Tools for Technical Surveys part of the project. DIMEC provides support for the adaptation of the tractor-based platform for use with the new sensing technologies developed. | ||
| University of Salzburg | (Austria) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: Land Impact survey, Non technical survey, Technical Survey, validation of remote sensing based products/services, dissemination and exploitation. | ||
| University of St Andrews | (UK) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: USTAN will participate in Technical Survey, Close-in detection and Validation. | ||
| Universite Libre De Bruxelles | (Belgium) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: IGEAT will lead the Tools for the Non-technical Survey development and will be significantly involved in the Land Impact Survey development. IGEAT will also contribute to the Toolbox Integration. | ||
| University of Zagreb | (Croatia) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: FGUNIZ will participate in the definition of the State-of-the-art of existing and operational Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System (AI DSS) and in Advancements of AI DSS. | ||
| Institute of Mathematical Machines | (Poland) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: IMM will contribute to Tools for Mine Risk Education and Tools for Training | ||
| Croatian Mine Action Centre | (Croatia) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: CTDT will conduct Operational validation in Croatia | ||
| Military Institute of Engineering | (Poland) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU : End Users Requirements, Tools for Disposal, Tools for Training, Tools Validation and Integration | ||
| Spinator Ab | (Sweden) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: SPINATOR are responsible for complete information integration and SPINATOR is (for this reason) also contributing to the user requirement definition. SPINATOR are responsible for the information structure and development of the system for collection, communication, analysis, presentation and distribution within (and in some cases outside) TIRAMISU. | ||
| Protime Gmbh | (Germany) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU : PROTIME, in cooperation with DIALOGIS , provides the mobile RTLC-toolkit (Real-Time Location and Communication) for high accuracy locating and tracking (of sensors, persons, vehicles, animals and any mobile equipment), communication of locations and sensor measurements from the field to a backend system, geodata management and real-time geo-processing services, for the display of geodata, measurements and Remote Control on an Human machine Interface which can be attached to a driving remote-controlled robotic system, which allows the safe carry of sensor-systems into the field. PROTIME will focus on concept and design of hardware (design of electronic boards and devices) and software (embedded firmware, database and web server programming) for the areas of: (1) high precision position measurement using GNS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS), IMU, compass, barometric sensors, (2) the wireless communication infrastructure for the transfer of sensor measurements to the backend system, (3) the backend server for location-aware services to the users and (4) the user frontend (MMI) and applications on mobile computers (PDA, smartphones). | ||
| Spacetec Partners Sprl | (Belgium) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: dissemination and communicationleader, Member of the Project Coordination Team, assistance to Data Survey and links to related projects. | ||
| European Union Satellite Centre | (Spain) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU : EUSC will lead Tools for Land Impact Survey, as well participating in User Engagement activities such as Toolbox Requirements and operational validation. EUSC will have a participation in other RTD activities ( Tools for non Technical Survey) as well as managerial activities contributing to technical coordination. | ||
| Vallon Gmbh | (Germany) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: VALLON will participate in developing tools for close-in detection (Metal Detector). R&D for novel, modular multichannel metal detection applicable for light-weight metal mine detection systems (e.g. on robots) and for larger swathe width vehicle based detection systems. Development of data interfaces between MD sensors and evaluation platforms. Development of algorithms for metal classification. Development of MD hardware for integration into demining platforms. | ||
| IDS - Ingegneria Dei Sistemi - Spa | (Italy) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: IDS Georadar Division and the Radar Laboratory will be responsible for developing a densely sampled GPR imaging array for the close-in detection of mines and UXOs. | ||
| Brimatech Services Gmbh | (Austria) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: End Users Requirements, Tools for Mine Risk Education, Tools for Training, Tools Validation, Exploitation (Lead) | ||
| European Committee for Standardization | (Belgium) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: Standardisation | ||
| Noveltis Sa | (France) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: NOVELTIS will be involved in pre-processing and processing of remotely sensed data, and in signal processing and electromagnetic modelling for mine detection using GPR. | ||
| Dialogis Ug | (Germany) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: DIALOGIS, in cooperation with PROTIME, provides the mobile RTLC-toolkit (Real-Time Location and Communication) for high accuracy locating andtracking (of sensors, persons, vehicles, animals and any mobile equipment),communication of locations and sensor, measurements from the field to a backend system (GIS and SDSS), geodata management and real-time geo-processing services. | ||
| Pierre Trattori Snc | (Italy) | |
| Main Roles in TIRAMISU: PIERRE will mainly work in close collaboration with DIMEC in the development of agricultural derived tools for ground verification in Technical Survey. It will also be involved in developing protective equipment and tools integration. | ||
Sponsors
Union Européenne
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