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Humanitarian Mine Action

Surveyed roads in Angola

19/12/2005: On 6 October 2005, the system for road verification went operational and the Wide Area Detection System (WADS) survey crew started surveying the Luena–Lucusse road in Angola.

DCA developed mine clearing vehicle WADS, Angola 2005

Completed road surveys: Surveys of the Luena–Lucusse road (131.4 km), the Lucusse road–Lungue Vungue road ( 27.6 km) and the first 55.5 km of the Lucusse–Lumbala Kakengue road (up to the NPA camp) were completed on 28 October 2005.

Thus a total of 214.5 km of roads were surveyed during October. More than 28,000 targets were detected during the surveys of these roads and approximately 1,812,300 square meters were searched down to a depth of one meter.

The system was exposed for and received national accreditation on 16 and 17 November by the national mine action authority CNIDAH.

Map 1: Location of roads surveyed by the WADS

Map 2: Location of road segments verified by the RCT

More information: DCA Humanitarian Mine Action in Angola