mine clearance
Battlefield hazard elimination
Mine clearance is the process of detecting and removing explosive mines from an area—whether land mines buried in soil or naval mines floating in water.
The work is dangerous and painstaking, often continuing for decades after conflicts end.
Mine clearance in Cambodia has been ongoing since the 1990s.
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
- war zoneArea of active conflict
- blastSudden forceful burst
- metal detectorDevice sensing buried conductors
sniffer dogs · sweep · demining · landmine · minefield · unexploded ordnance · bomb squad · flail · land restoration · Cambodia · humanitarian · civilian casualties · risk assessment · evacuation plans · Afghanistan · infrared imaging · prosthetics · safe passage
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- Bomb Disposalbomb disposal, bomb squad, EOD, bomb robot, bomb disposal robot
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
- Frogmenfrogmen, combat divers, dive teams, Navy SEALs, divers
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- Mine Warfarenaval mines, sea mines, magnetic mines, minefield, minefields
military/security action
mine clearancemine laying
Deploying submerged explosives
minelaying · booby-trapping · mining operations · weaponization · fortification