Welcome to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Landmine Signatures Database Home Page (the current URL is http://apl-database.jrc.it).

The European Commission (EC) is currently leading an R&D Program on Humanitarian Demining through its EC DG Information Society (further information on this activity is available through the EU Mine Actions web-site). Within the frame of this Program, one of missions of the JRC is to develop a database of anti-personnel landmine (APL) signatures. The sensor classes considered so far include radar (e.g.:GPR), thermal infrared (TIR) and metal detectors.

Other activities presently taking place at the JRC include the provision of test and evaluation facilities to the different consortia running contracts within the EC Humanitarian Demining Program managed by EC DG Information Society, and the participation as a main partner in the ARIS Network of Excellence and the Joint Multi-Sensor Mine Signature Measurement Campaign (MSMS).

The main objective in making this database publicly available is to support the scientific community in the advance of the state of the art in APL detection and identification.

This database is intended to host signature data gathered internally at the JRC and, what is more important, from external sources (e.g.: National Humanitarian Demining Programs, consortia currently running contracts with EC DG Information Society, research laboratories in Universities and Industries,...).

Access to the signature data is only permitted after completing the registration procedure.

This Database has been created within the framework of two projects with EC DG Information Society (Projects 501851-SIGEX and 501032-MINESIGN).
Access to the signature data is subject to this legal disclaimer.