ROCKY COUNTRY
Signs may often present themselves as either a disturbance or colour change in rocky conditions. It may also mean that a top sign is more prevalent, as the parties to an armed conflict are not able to dig into the ground and bury IEDs as readily.
Image 63. A disturbance can be easily seen on this rocky ground
FOREST OR WOODLAND
Forest and woodland can be challenging environments for MA organisations trying to use a sign to provide evidence of IED contamination and this difficulty is likely to increase as the sign ages. In these environments what should be considered is how conditions during the conflict would have affected the opportunity of parties to an armed conflict to conduct attacks using IEDs. In dense forest or woodland, mobility even on foot may be difficult and it is important to be able to locate current and former tracks that would have provided opportunities to use IEDs. Therefore, as well as being used to identify IEDs, signs can help identify the terrain-based indicators described in Section 1.
Images 64 and 65 illustrate just how difficult it can be to identify a relatively large above-surface IED component in forest and woodland conditions.
Image 64. There is an IED component part in this image, can you see it?
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