PETALS: a visual interface for landmine detection

Post-conflict landmines have serious humanitarian repercus-sions: landmines cost lives, limbs and land. The primary method used to locate these buried devices relies on the inherently dangerous and difficult task of a human listening to audio feedback from a metal detector. Researchers have previously hypothesized that expert operators respond to these challenges by building mental patterns with metal detectors through the identification of a spatially distributed metallic field, whose 2-dimensional geometry is dependent on the type of buried object. This paper presents a novel interface Pattern Enhancement Tool for Assisting Landmine Sensing

http://iis.seas.harvard.edu/projects/petals/files/uistPaper2010.pdf