This minefield has been designed with the help of the deminers of DOVO/SEDEE (Dienst voor Opruiming en Vernietiging van Ontploffingstuigen / Service d'Enlèvement et de Destruction d'Engins Explosifs), the bomb disposal unit of the Belgian army.

It has the following properties:

• Anti-personnel and antitank mines are present,
• some dummy objects have been laid,
• the minefield is divided in several smaller minefields (A,B,C...),
• minefield C is a structured (unrealistic) minefield built to provide signatures of different mines and dummy objects at different depths, orientations...
• for other minefields, caution has been taken to get realistic minefields:
  • Realistic burying procedures,
  • Realistic positions, depths, patterns...
• the way mines have been laid agrees with the reality,
• the geographic structure and the patterns used are realistic.
• the minefield is divided in several smaller minefields.

During phase 1, only minefield C location and related mine positions, types etc. was known. This minefield was used for training in order to learn mine signatures, available mine indicators, etc. The knowledge gathered on this test minefield was then used to detect other minefields.  An evaluation was then performed to decide whether the detection capabilities are sufficient to proceed to phase 2. For this evaluation, all mine positions, types etc. were made available and compared to what was found by the consortium. The results were quite encouraging since 7 minefields out of 9 where detected.