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Division A / Mine action

Making contaminated land usable again.

Mine action here runs one task cycle end to end — desk assessment and survey, clearance, quality control, and the formal release of land back to the people who live on it. Every polygon, task and finding carries coordinates into the operational record.

01 / Task cycle

Each stage has to close before the next one opens.

A task does not skip forward. Land is not cleared before it has been surveyed, and it is not released before independent quality control has signed off on it.

  1. 01

    Risk identification

    Desk assessment, historical conflict data and community reporting establish where hazard is plausible.

  2. 02

    Survey & assessment

    Non-technical and technical survey narrow a suspected hazardous area to defined polygons.

  3. 03

    Geospatial mapping

    Every polygon, task and finding carries coordinates and enters the operational record.

  4. 04

    Clearance operations

    Systematic clearance to agreed depth against national mine action standards.

  5. 05

    Quality control

    Independent sampling and documentation before any land is declared released.

  6. 06

    Cleared land

    Land handed back to the community with a full evidentiary trail.

02 / Area assessment

A task, tracked in the open.

The panel below is one task from the operational record, formatted the way the geospatial system itself renders it — coordinates and percentages, not a summary of them.

DDS-MA-0294Suspected hazardous areaIMAS 09.10Illustrative task record
Task ID
DDS-MA-0294
Area type
Suspected hazardous area
Extent
128.4 ha
Standard
IMAS 09.10
Items found
47

Ground status

39% remaining
Cleared
61%
Surveyed, not cleared
21%
Not surveyed
18%
03 / Standards

Cleared does not mean assumed.

Every task runs against IMAS 09.10, the international standard for non-technical and technical survey. A clearance team does not declare land released on its own word — independent sampling and documentation happen first, against the same record built while the task was open.

Clearance standard
IMAS 09.10
Release basis
Independent QC, full evidentiary trail

Task us.

Survey, clearance and land release. If a suspected hazardous area already has a non-technical survey behind it, bring that — it is the fastest way to a realistic answer on scope and duration.

Who tasks this work

  • Mine action partners
  • NGOs & humanitarian actors
  • Government & institutional
  • Multinational corporations
  • Research institutions