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.

Active Projects List
Project Title Start Date

Quality Control Methodologies for Advanced EMI Sensor Data Acquisition and Anomaly Classification

Project Information
Project ID: MR-201231
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ryan Steigerwalt P.G., Weston Solutions, Inc.
ESTCP Mar 2012

Real-Time Quality Control Methods for Cued EMI Data Collection

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Project ID: MR-201264
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonathan S. Miller, Sky Research, Inc.
ESTCP Mar 2012

Selecting Optimal Models for Inverting Electromagnetic Induction Data

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Project ID: MR-1637
Principal Investigator: Dr. Leonard Pasion, Black Tusk Geophysics, Inc.
SERDP Jul 2008

Semi-Automated Ferrous Material Scouring System

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Project ID: MR-201102
Principal Investigator: Mr. Christopher Fromme, National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon
ESTCP Mar 2011

Tensor Invariant Processing for Munitions/Clutter Classification

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Project ID: MR-2100
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
SERDP Mar 2011

Tensor Invariant Processing of Multistatic EMI Data for Target Classification

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Project ID: MR-201310
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
ESTCP Jan 2013

The Effect of Noise on EM61-MK2 and MetalMapper Classification Strategies

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Project ID: MR-201229
Principal Investigator: Mr. Stephen Stacy, ARCADIS/Malcolm Pirnie
ESTCP Mar 2012

UXO Characterization in Challenging Survey Environments Using the MPV

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Project ID: MR-201228
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicolas Lhomme, Sky Research, Inc.
ESTCP Mar 2012

UXO Classification Demonstrations at Live Sites Using UX-Analyze

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Project ID: MR-201312
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dean Keiswetter, SAIC
ESTCP Jan 2013