Land mines prevent people from carrying out their daily tasks, leaving them no option but to leave their homes and become refugees or displaced people, unable to return home until their land is cleared, Ilidza, Sarajevo, March 1996. The Handheld Operational Demining System (HOPE) project is part of the European Union’s efforts to support humanitarian demining operations. ESA assists these efforts under its Technology Transfer Programme, which supports the use of space technology in non-space fields. HOPE includes a ground penetration radar originally developed for space missions to other planet for the investigation of soil content and underground structures. Photo:UNHCR/R.LeMoyne