Modeling and Signal Processing

SERDP and ESTCP efforts focus on developing new capabilities to analyze data from standard and advanced geophysical sensors.

Completed Projects List
Project Title Completed

Integration of Advanced Statistical Analysis Tools and Geophysical Modeling

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1657
Principal Investigator: Mr. Lawrence Carin, Duke University
SERDP Aug 2012

Expanded Processing Techniques for EMI Systems

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1772
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Prouty, Geometrics
SERDP Jul 2012

Kalman Filters for UXO Detection: Real-Time Feedback and Small Target Detection

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2106
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tomasz Grzegorczyk, Delpsi, LLC
SERDP May 2012

Advanced Signal Processing and Classification: UXO Standardized Test Site Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1505
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dean Keiswetter, SAIC
SERDP Apr 2012

Quantification of Noise Sources in Electromagnetic Induction Surveys

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200508
Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Spargo, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
ESTCP Apr 2012

Simultaneous Inversion of UXO Parameters and Background Response

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1573
Principal Investigator: Dr. Leonard Pasion, Black Tusk Geophysics, Inc.
SERDP Mar 2012

A Complex Approach to UXO Discrimination: Combining Advanced EMI Forward and Statistical Signal Processing

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1572
Principal Investigator: Dr. Fridon Shubitidze, Dartmouth College/Sky Research Inc.
SERDP Jan 2012

Magnetic Surface Modes and UXO/Clutter Classification and Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1658
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
SERDP Dec 2011

Robust Statistics and Regularization for Feature Extraction and UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1629
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonathan S. Miller, Sky Research, Inc.
SERDP Jul 2011

Advanced UXO Detection and Discrimination Using Magnetic Data Based on Extended Euler Deconvolution and Shape Identification Through Multipole Moments

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1638
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Krahenbuhl, Colorado School of Mines
SERDP Apr 2011

Advanced Signal Processing for Detailed Site Characterization and Target Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1669
Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Weichman, BAE Systems
SERDP Apr 2011

Cost-Aware Design of a Discrimination Strategy for Unexploded Ordnance Cleanup

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1715
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeremiah Remus, Clarkson University
SERDP Feb 2011

Advanced MEC Discrimination Comparative Study on Standardized Test-Site Data Using Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200811
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dean Keiswetter, SAIC
ESTCP Aug 2010

Exploiting EMI Signals During Active Transmission

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1659
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gregory Schultz, White River Technologies
SERDP Aug 2010

Practical Discrimination Strategies for Application to Live Sites

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200504
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Billings, Black Tusk Geophysics Inc.
ESTCP Jun 2010

Target Picking Methods for Magnetic Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200502
Principal Investigator: Mr. Tom Furuya, SAIC
ESTCP Jun 2010

Enhancement of Magnetic Data by Stable Downward Continuation for UXO Application

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1642
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines
SERDP Jun 2010

Enhancement of TEM Data and Noise Characterization by Principal Component Analysis

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1640
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines
SERDP May 2010

Improving Detection and Discrimination of UXO in Magnetic Environments

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1414
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines
SERDP May 2010

Use of Target Shape and Size in Classification of UXO in Survey Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1455
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jim McDonald, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
SERDP Dec 2009

New Man-Portable Vector Time Domain Electromagnetic Induction Sensor and Physically Complete Processing Approaches for UXO Discrimination Under Realistic Field Conditions

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1443
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Sep 2009

Advanced UXO Discrimination Using Magnetometry: Understanding Remanent Magnetization

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1380
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Billings, Black Tusk Geophysics Inc.
SERDP Sep 2009

Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing for UXO Discrimination for Next-Generation Sensor Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1442
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leslie Collins, Duke University
SERDP Sep 2009

Phenomenology and Signal Processing for UXO/Clutter Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1595
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
SERDP Aug 2009

UX-Analyze: Feature-Based UXO Detection and Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200210
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dean Keiswetter, SAIC
ESTCP Jan 2009

A Multisensor System for the Detection and Characterization of UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200437
Principal Investigator: Dr. Erika Gasperikova, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
ESTCP Nov 2008

Demonstration and Validation of Advanced Digital Geophysics for Sensing UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200501
Principal Investigator: Mr. Lawrence Carin, Duke University
ESTCP Oct 2008

Standardized Analysis for UXO Demonstration Sites

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200413
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
ESTCP Sep 2008

Non-Traditional Physics-Based Inverse Approaches for Determining Location of Buried Objects

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1592
Principal Investigator: Dr. Fridon Shubitidze, Dartmouth College
SERDP Sep 2008

Optimal Sensor Management for Next-Generation EMI Systems

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1591
Principal Investigator: Lawrence Carin, Duke University
SERDP Jun 2008

Processing for Clutter Evasion in UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1590
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Apr 2008

Multifractal Characterization of Geologic Noise for Improved UXO Detection and Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1508
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jonathan Nyquist, Temple University
SERDP Apr 2008

MTADS Data Analysis System Migration

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200328
ESTCP Feb 2008

Intelligent Data Fusion for Wide-Area Assessment of UXO Contamination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1510
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Rose-Pehrsson, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
SERDP Jan 2008

Machine Learning Approach for Target Selection and Threat Classification of Wide Area Survey Data

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1570
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jim McDonald, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
SERDP Dec 2007

Quantification of UXO Variability for Target Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1313
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonathan Miller, SAIC
SERDP Jun 2007

Physics-Based Modeling and Signal Processing for SAR Detection of Former Bombing Ranges and Burial Pits

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1283
Principal Investigator: Mr. Lawrence Carin, Duke University
SERDP Jun 2007

UXO Discrimination in Cases with Overlapping Signatures

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1282
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin O'Neill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
SERDP Apr 2007

Intra-Inversion Filtering for Use of Magnetic Fields to Locate and Characterize Magnetic Dipoles for UXO Cleanup

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1452
Principal Investigator: Dr. Raymond Rene, Rene Geophysics
SERDP Feb 2007

Signal Processing and Modeling for UXO Detection and Discrimination in Highly Contaminated Sites

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1281
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leslie Collins, Duke University
SERDP Feb 2007

A Unified Approach to UXO Discrimination Using the Method of Auxiliary Sources

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1446
Principal Investigator: Dr. Leonard Pasion, Black Tusk Geophysics, Inc.
SERDP Oct 2006

Empirical Corrections to Dipole Model

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1451
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonathan Miller, SAIC
SERDP Oct 2006

Monte Carlo Engine for Electromagnetic Induction Analysis

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1449
Principal Investigator: Mr. Jonathan Miller, SAIC
SERDP Sep 2006

Adaptive and Iterative Processing Techniques for Overlapping UXO Signatures

Project Information
Project ID: MR-200415
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
ESTCP Apr 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Application of Wavelets for Detection and Discrimination of UXO

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1284
Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian Damiano, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
SERDP Aug 2003

Evaluating the Effects of Magnetic Susceptibility in UXO Discrimination Problems

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1285
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines
SERDP Aug 2003

Improving UXO/Clutter Discrimination Performance Through Adaptive Processing

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1287
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
SERDP Jun 2003

Matched Filter Processor for Detection and Discrimination of Unexploded Ordnance

Project Information
Project ID: MR-199918
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Bell, SAIC
ESTCP Jan 2003

A Unified Approach to the Processing and Fusion of Time and Frequency Domain EMI Data for UXO Discrimination

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1217
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eric Miller, Northeastern University
SERDP Jan 2003

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

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

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

UXO Data Analysis

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

SAR/GPR Matched Filter Processing for UXO Discrimination

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

Electromagnetic Induction and Magnetic Sensor Fusion for Enhanced UXO Target Classification

Project Information
Project ID: MR-199812
ESTCP Oct 2001

Detection and Classification of Buried Metallic Objects

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1174
SERDP Oct 2000

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

Project Information
Project ID: MR-1092
SERDP Oct 1999