Munitions Response

SERDP and ESTCP’s Munitions Response program area supports the development and demonstration of innovative technologies that can characterize, remediate, and scientifically manage sites affected by military munitions.

Completed Projects List
Project Title Completed

The Sensitive Detection of Unexploded Ordinance and Other Hazardous Materials

Project Information
Project ID: MR-713
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rosario Sausa, US Army Research Laboratory
SERDP Oct 1995

Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Detection Feasibility Study

Project Information
Project ID: MR-860
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Cullinane, US Army Waterways Experiment Station
SERDP Apr 1996

Multisensor Data Fusion for Detection of Unexploded Ordnance

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1052
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ernesto Cespedes, US Army WES/EE-S
SERDP Oct 1998

Innovative Seismic System for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Classification

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1091
Principal Investigator: Mr. Peter Krumhansl, BBN Technologies (Verizion)
SERDP Dec 1998

Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Detection by Enhanced Harmonic Radar

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1071
SERDP May 1999

Environmental Impacts to the Chemical Signature Emanating from Buried UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1094
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jim Phelan, Sandia National Laboratories
SERDP Oct 1999

Model-Based Data Fusion and Discrimination of UXO in Magnetometry and EM Surveys

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1092
SERDP Oct 1999

Mobile Underwater Debris Survey System (MUDSS)

Project Information
Project ID: MR-52
SERDP Apr 2000

Detection and Classification of Buried Metallic Objects

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1174
SERDP Oct 2000

Assessment of the Potential for Microgravimetry in Remote Discrimination and Identification of Buried UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1170
Principal Investigator: Dwain Butler, Geotechnical Laboratory
SERDP Dec 2000

Novel Acoustic Technique for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1172
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Bell, Battelle
SERDP Jun 2001

Low-Frequency Ultra-Wideband Synethetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Remote Detection of UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1070
Principal Investigator: Mr. Marc Ressler, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
SERDP Oct 2001

SAR/GPR Matched Filter Processing for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1173
Principal Investigator: Dr. George Moussally, Mirage Systems
SERDP Dec 2001

Characterization of Scrap Materials for Mass Detonating Energetic Materials

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1194
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jim Phelan, Sandia National Laboratories
SERDP Feb 2002

Removal, Degradation and Recovery of Energetic Residues from Range Scrap

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1196
Principal Investigator: Mr. Philip Thorne, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
SERDP Feb 2002

Processing Techniques for Discrimination Between Buried Unexploded Ordnance and Clutter Using Multisensor Array Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1121
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
SERDP Apr 2002

UXO Data Analysis

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1216
Principal Investigator: Mr. Carl Nelson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
SERDP Apr 2002

UXO Discrimination by Mid- Frequency Electromagnetic Induction

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1122
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Nov 2002

Statistical Signal Processing with Physics-Based Models: Multi-Sensor UXO Detection and Identification

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1123
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leslie Collins, Duke University
SERDP Dec 2002

EM61-3D Discrimination of UXO Using Empirical, Analytical, and Numerical Models

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1215
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Grimm, Southwest Research Institute
SERDP Dec 2002