Source library
Start with the source.
This is a small, growing set of authoritative starting points—not a substitute for local advice, technical assessment, or specialist clearance guidance.
Standards & law
Use the primary framework.
- IMAS 07.11: Land release
The reference for land-release process, all reasonable effort, residual contamination, and residual risk.
- IMAS 04.10: Glossary of mine-action terms
Authoritative definitions for UXO, AXO, ERW, EO, and related terms.
- CCW Protocol V technical annex
International framework covering recording, warnings, risk education, marking, fencing, monitoring, and clearance.
Humanitarian mine action
Data and operational context.
- United Nations Mine Action Service
United Nations mine-action information, country programmes, and risk-reduction work.
- ICRC: Weapon contamination
Explosive contamination, civilian impacts, and the humanitarian response.
- Landmine Monitor
Annual, cited reporting on mines, cluster munitions, and explosive remnants of war. Read the category and year before reusing any number.
- Mine Action Review
Independent research on mine-action progress, including country-by-country clearance reporting.
Professional & industry resource
A distinct, longstanding reference.
- UXOInfo.com
A longstanding independent professional and industry UXO resource with technical, regulatory, historical, and practitioner-oriented material. UXO.ECO is independently operated and is not affiliated with or endorsed by UXOInfo.com; this link does not imply endorsement by either project.
Environment & water
The hazard can outlast the explosion.
- U.S. EPA: Military Munitions Response Program
Background on munitions and explosives of concern, and potential explosive-residue and metal contamination at former military sites.
- NOAA: Munitions and Explosives of Concern
U.S. outer-continental-shelf mapping and data context; historic offshore locations are often incomplete or uncertain.
- OSPAR: Munitions
Northeast Atlantic work on dumped conventional and chemical munitions and reported encounters.
- HELCOM: Warfare materials in the Baltic Sea
2025 thematic assessment of hazardous submerged warfare materials, with a focus on conventional munitions.
Watch & learn
UXO.ECO video resources.
- UXO.ECO YouTube playlist
A growing collection of UXO.ECO video resources. YouTube opens in a separate service and may apply its own data practices.