Category: ALIS

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2025/4/16 Received the “Excellence Award” of the 37th SME Excellent New Technology and New Product Awards

ALIS” won the ‘Excellence Award’ in the 37th Small and Medium Enterprise New Technology and New Product Awards [ Sponsor: Resona Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion / The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.

ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System), a combination of a metal detector and GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar), is a small landmine detection sensor that is hand-held and scanned by the operator. While a metal detector is a sensor that detects buried metal underground, GPR uses radio wave reflection to image the shape of the plastic container of an anti-personnel landmine, allowing the operator to determine whether the metal detector response is due to a landmine or other piece of metal without excavation. Thus, the GPR can dramatically improve work efficiency compared to using a metal detector alone.

Click here to see the detail page of the SMEs Excellent New Technology and New Product Award. Click here to go to the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun’s award-winning works page.

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2025/4/8 MEXT Award for Science and Technology

Motoyuki SATO (President of ALISys, Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University) received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prize for Science and Technology (Development Category).

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2025/3/24 ALIS training in Cambodia

Representative Sato went to Cambodia again this month. He used the new ALIS software to test and train.

In addition, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, “On March 20, 2025, in the capital Phnom Penh, the Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia signed an exchange of notes regarding the revision of the donation limit for the “Economic and Social Development Program (Mine Action Equipment)” and the “Cambodia Mine Action Center Training Facility and Outreach Facility Construction Program.” We hope that ALIS will continue to be useful in mine removal.

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2025/3 2025/3 ALIS training conducted in Ukraine

As part of JICA’s humanitarian mine and unexploded ordnance countermeasures, ALISys CEO Sato headed to Ukraine for training in the detection, identification, and removal of mines and explosives using the mine detector ALIS. In the area, the Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine (SESU) is detecting, identifying, and removing mines and explosives to protect people’s safety amid ongoing Russian attacks. The use of the mine detector ALIS is being introduced on the Emergency Situations Service of SESU’s Facebook page.