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Mine action · Incident intelligence

Explosive hazard is a mapping problem.

DDS clears landmines and unexploded ordnance from the ground, and builds the intelligence platform that records where new contamination is being created. The discipline is the same in both directions — a coordinate, a confidence, and an account of how both were established.

UXONEWS coverage

2,481
Incidents indexed
rolling 30 days
31
Active conflict zones
monitored continuously
500+
Sources monitored
multi-language
01 / Position

Mine action and incident monitoring are almost always run by different organisations, on different tools, and neither one sees the other’s data.

DDS runs both. Clearance teams work against the same geospatial record the monitoring platform writes into, and the monitoring platform is built by people who have had to stand on the ground it describes. That is not a synergy claim — it is the reason a suspected hazardous area and a reported explosion can be held in one coordinate system, with one standard of evidence, instead of being reconciled by hand after the fact.

02 / Divisions

Two halves of one problem.

Division ADDS

Demining

Making contaminated land usable again.

Mine action across the full task cycle — desk assessment and non-technical survey through to clearance, quality control and the formal release of land back to the people who live on it. Every polygon, task and finding carries coordinates and enters the operational record.

  • Landmine, UXO and ERW clearance
  • Non-technical and technical survey
  • Contaminated-area assessment
  • Geospatial task management
Division BDDS

Defence & Intelligence

Knowing where the next of it comes from.

UXONEWS is a continuously running pipeline that turns fragmented global reporting into structured, geolocated incident records — and keeps revising them as the reporting develops.

  • Global incident monitoring
  • Multi-source verification
  • Conflict-zone tracking
  • Structured data and API
03 / The output

A record, not an article.

Reporting arrives as prose from dozens of outlets in as many languages. What leaves the pipeline is one row with named fields, a coordinate precise enough to place, and every source it was built from.

UXN-4417-B2ExplosionHigh6 sourcesIllustrative record

Explosion reported at industrial depot, Nairobi

Multiple outlets report a blast at a storage facility in the industrial district. Emergency services on scene; cause not yet established. Casualty figures differ between early reports and are being tracked.

Event type
Explosion
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinates
1.2900° S, 36.8200° E
Killed
8
Injured
23
First report
17 min ago
Independent sources
6
Confidence
High

How confidence was reached

  1. T+00

    First report detected — single source

  2. T+04

    Second independent source — location resolved

  3. T+09

    Cross-source agreement on incident type

  4. T+14

    Casualty figures revised upward

  5. T+17

    Confidence raised to high — 6 sources

Reporting used

  • Reuters
  • AP
  • BBC
  • AFP
  • Nation
  • Standard
04 / Capabilities

What DDS actually does.

  1. 01

    Demining & mine action

    Survey, assessment and clearance capability for landmines, UXO and explosive remnants of war.

    Mine action
  2. 02

    Global monitoring

    Hundreds of sources watched continuously across languages and formats.

    Intelligence
  3. 03

    Geolocation

    Reports resolved into precise coordinates — never invented to fill a gap.

    Intelligence
  4. 04

    Multi-source verification

    Accounts cross-checked field by field across independent reporting.

    Intelligence
  5. 05

    Incident intelligence

    Structured records in place of fragmented articles.

    Intelligence
  6. 06

    Live updates

    Records revised as new credible reporting emerges, including casualty figures.

    Intelligence
  7. 07

    Conflict monitoring

    Active conflict areas and incident density rendered geographically.

    Intelligence
  8. 08

    Airstrike & drone detection

    Dedicated categorisation for air and unmanned-system events.

    Intelligence
  9. 09

    API access

    Structured intelligence delivered straight into enterprise systems.

    Intelligence

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Who uses this

  • Security & risk management
  • Insurance & underwriting
  • Logistics & transportation
  • Multinational corporations
  • Intelligence & security firms
  • Media organisations
  • Research institutions
  • NGOs & humanitarian actors
  • Government & institutional
  • Mine action partners