Land

Detection and classification of buried or sub-surface UXO is a significant technical challenge for remediation of UXO on land.  SERDP and ESTCP investments focus on developing rigorous, effective, and transparent methods to overcome this challenge.

Completed Projects List
Project Title Completed

Airborne UXO Surveys Using Magnetometer Arrays

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200031
ESTCP Oct 2005

Efficient, Realistic Physics-Based Modeling for Buried UXO Based on Time-Domain Electromagnetic Scattering Signatures

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1311
Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Weichman, BAE Systems
SERDP Aug 2005

Ultra-Wideband, Fully Polarimetric Ground Penetrating Radar for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-199902
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
ESTCP Jul 2005

UXO Target Detection and Discrimination with Electromagnetic Differential Illumination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1355
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jack Foley Ph.D., Sky Research, Inc.
SERDP Jun 2005

Analysis and Processing of PELAN Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1384
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kurt Hacker, Naval EOD Technology Division
SERDP Apr 2005

Detection and Classification of Buried Metallic Objects

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1225
Principal Investigator: Prof. Huntly Morrison, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
SERDP Mar 2005

Handheld Sensor for Unexploded Ordnance Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200108
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
ESTCP Jan 2005

Combined Electromagnetic and Magnetometer Data Acquisition and Processing

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200208
Principal Investigator: Mr. Roger Young, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ESTCP Jan 2005

EMI Sensor Optimized for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1315
Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Spargo, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
SERDP Jan 2005

Reducing False Alarms: The Physics of Scrap Discrimination for Magnetic Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1356
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Lieblich, SIV Technologies Inc.
SERDP Nov 2004

Innovative Navigation Systems to Support Digital Geophysical Mapping

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200129
ESTCP Oct 2004

PELAN - A Transportable, Neutron-Based UXO Identification Probe

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200106
Principal Investigator: Dr. Phillip Womble, Western Kentucky University
ESTCP Oct 2004

Application of Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar to UXO Delineation

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200126
Principal Investigator: Dr. Janet Simms, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
ESTCP Oct 2004

Use of Shape Representation and Similarity in Classification of UXO in Magnetometry Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1354
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jim McDonald, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
SERDP Oct 2004

UXO Characterization with a Fast 4-D TEM System

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200105
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Zonge, Zonge Engineering and Research Organization, Inc.
ESTCP Aug 2004

On-Range Treatment of Ordnance Debris and Bulk Energetics Resulting from Low-Order Detonations

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1330
Principal Investigator: Mr. Philip Thorne, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
SERDP Jul 2004

Dual Mode Operation of GEM-3 as Time-Domain/Frequency- Domain Sensor

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1358
Principal Investigator: Dr. I.J. Won, Geophex, Ltd.
SERDP Jun 2004

Three-Dimensional Geophysical Data Collection and Analysis for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1357
Principal Investigator: Mr. T. Jeffrey Gamey, Battelle
SERDP Jun 2004

GEM-3D Sensor Development (SEED Project)

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1353
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Jan 2004

Geonics EM-63 Multi-Channel Electromagnetic (EM) Data Processing Algorithms for Target Location and Ordnance Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200035
Principal Investigator: Dr. G. Hunter Ware, Geophysical Associates
ESTCP Oct 2003