Trimble has announced a partnership with the HALO Trust, the world’s largest landmine-clearing non-profit organization, to help expand its demining operations across Ukraine. The grant from the Trimble Foundation Fund will focus on strengthening the HALO Trust’s capacity to locate and remove landmines, unexploded ordnance and other explosive hazards from civilian areas to create safer communities.
HALO has been on the ground in Ukraine since 2016. More than a thousand members of staff are active daily, both to clear explosives in critical priority areas and to recruit and train hundreds of new staff members to help keep communities safe from dangerous weapons left behind.
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology for surveying and mapping has played a significant role in the success of HALO’s operations around the world, including in Ukraine. Over the last six years, Trimble R1 and Trimble R2 GNSS receivers have been used by HALO in conjunction with Esri ArcGIS Survey123 software for the identification and clearance of landmines.
