A service platform addressing the needs of the Mine Action community to improve and optimise planning and preparation, and to reduce the impact of demining activities

SAFEDEM aims at providing a service platform addressing the needs of the Mine Action community to improve and optimise planning and preparation, and to reduce the impact of demining activities. The SAFEDEM service platform integrates data from Earth observation satellites with high-resolution data acquired through remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) to offer a comprehensive set of products and services in support to land release process in mine action at its various levels. The SAFEDEM demonstration project is the follow-up of the SAFEDEM feasibility study which demonstrated the capability of space integrated assets to provide useful information for the demining activities confirming the potential to provide sustainable services with measurable benefits to the mine action community. The key objectives of SAFEDEM are to bring satellite technologies in the Mine Action context, where up to now they are only partially exploited; to consolidate a methodology for integration and fusion of Satellite, RPAS and land-based data aimed at providing support for land release activities; to demonstrate and deliver to the Mine Action users some well-established data processing techniques; and to set-up a set of innovative services in a coherent framework, in order to help Mine Action practitioners in their activities.