Airplane disasters and communication crises

Communication is crucial with regard to managing crises. This article is a short version of a paper that analysed the development of crisis communication within the aviation industry in the Netherlands by investigating four different cases, i.e. the KLM crash at Tenerife in 1977, the El Al crash at the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam in 1992, the Martinair crash at Faro in 1992, and the Turkish Airlines crash at Schiphol in 2009

Performance of UWB Array-Based Radar Sensor in a Multi-Sensor Vehicle-Based Suit for Landmine Detection

In this paper, integration of an UWB array-based timedomain radar sensor in a vehicle-mounted multi-sensor system for landmine detection is described. Dedicated real-time signal processing algorithms are developed to compute the radar sensor confidence map which is used for sensor fusion. Performance of developed algorithms for stand-alone GPR sensor and multisensor suit is verified experimentall