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Mine Detection Dogs: Training, Operations and Odour Detection (June 2003)

 

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Complete Catalogue

All pages (4.3MB)

Front and back pages

Front, i, ii, back (453KB)

Contents

iii-vii (29KB)

Foreword

1-2 (15KB)

Introduction

3-6 (20KB)

Chapter 1. Perspectives on animal learning theory

 

Part 1. Comparing training concepts and styles
Ian G. McLean

7-10 (27KB)

Part 2. General learning principles for trainins REST dogs
Rune Fjellanger

11-22 (60KB)

Part 3. Principles of animal learning
Stewart Hilliard

23-42 (74KB)

Chapter 2. Case studies on training mine detection dogs

 

Part 1. Socialising puppies for demining
Johan van Wyk and André Le Roux

43-51 (237KB)

Part 2. The REST concept
Rune Fjellanger

53-107 (1MB)

Part 3. Training dogs to detect tripwires
Dan Hayter

109-138 (1.4MB)

Chapter 3. Training, organisation and skills: case studies of practice using mine detection dogs
Per Jostein Matre

139-163 (81KB)

Chapter 4. Programme reviews

 

Part 1. The Mechem Explosive and Drug Detection System (MEDDS)
Vernon Joynt

165-174 (125KB)

Part 2. Preliminary results on the use of Cricetomys rats as indicators of buried explosives in field conditions
Ron Verhagen, Christophe Cox, Robert Machangu, Bart Weetjens, and Mic Billet

175-193 (119KB)

Chapter 5. Odour detection: the theory and the practice

 

Part 1. How do dogs detect landmines? A summary of research results
Ann Göth, Ian G. McLean and James Trevelyan

195-208 (132KB)

Part 2. Chemical sensing for buried landmines: fundamental processes influencing trace chemical detection
James M. Phelan and Stephen W. Webb

209-285 (647KB)

Afterword: Animal detection in the future
Håvard Bach

287-298 (86KB)

Glossary of terms

299-300 (13KB)

Notes on contributors

301-303 (19KB)