Detection And Identification Of Visually Obscured Targets

Detection And Identification Of Visually Obscured Targets
Author: Carl E. Baum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351455656

Beginning with a review of the current need for identification of buried and surface unexplored ordnance such as mines, shells, bombs, this book then explains existing techniques for electromagnetic detection of such targets. A detailed treatment of target signatures (natural frequencies and related parameters) for identification and discrimination of false alarms is also given.

Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Deteciton, Discrimination, and Identification

Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Deteciton, Discrimination, and Identification
Author: Dwain Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN:

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup is the number one priority Army installation remediation restoration requirement. The problem is enormous in scope, with millions of acres and hundreds of sites potentially contaminated. Before the UXO can be recovered and destroyed, it must be located. UXO location requires surface geopbysical surveys. The geophysical anomalies caused by the UXO must be detected, discriminated from geophysical anomalies caused by other sources, and ideally identified or classified. Recent UXO technology demonstrations, live site demonstrations, and practical UXO surveys for site cleanup confirm that most UXO anomalies can be detected (with probabilities of detection of 90 percent or better), however there is little evidence of discrimination capability (i.e., the false alarm rates are high), and there is no identification capability. Approaches to simultaneously increase probability of detection and decrease false alarm rate and ultimately to give identification/classification capability involve rational multisensor data integration for discrimination and advanced development of new and emerging technology for enhanced discrimination and identification. The goal of multisensor data integration is to achieve true joint inversion of data to a best-fitting model using realistic physics-based models that replicate UXO geometries and physical properties of the UXO and surrounding geologic materials. Data management, analysis, and display procedures for multisensor data are investigated. A magnetic modeling capability is developed, validated, and documented that uses a prolate spheroid model of UXO. The electromagnetic modeling of UXO signatures is more problematic, and an intermediate quasi-empirical modeling capability (a simple analytical model modified to reflect measured signature observations) is explored.

Demonstration of Airborne Electromagnetic Systems for Detection and Characterization of Unexploded Ordnance at the Badlands Bombing Range, South Dakota. Revision 3

Demonstration of Airborne Electromagnetic Systems for Detection and Characterization of Unexploded Ordnance at the Badlands Bombing Range, South Dakota. Revision 3
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2004
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This report describes a set of field tests conducted at Badlands Bombing Range (BBR) in South Dakota in September 2002. The primary goal of the field tests was to evaluate parameters critical to the design of an airborne electromagnetic system capable of detecting a variety of buried ordnance. The resulting system, called ORAGS-TEM, was patterned after the low-flying helicopter magnetic systems under development at ORNL through separate SERDP/ESTCP programs. Thus, the ORAGS-TEM has a frame mounted, multiple sensor design that permits helicopter surveys at altitudes as low as one meter over UXO-contaminated terrain. As with the magnetic systems, GPS and laser altimetry provide precise positioning to within a few tens of centimeters.

Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Detection, Discrimination, and Identification

Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Detection, Discrimination, and Identification
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Explosives, Military
ISBN:

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup is the number one priority Army installation remediation/restoration requirement The problem is enormous in scope, with millions of acres and hundreds of sites potentially contaminated. Before the UXO can be recovered and destroyed, it must be located. UXO location requires surface geophysical surveys. The geophysical anomalies caused by the UXO must be detected, discriminated from geophysical anomalies caused by other sources, and ideally identified or classified. Recent UXO technology demonstrations, live site demonstrations, and practical UXO surveys for site cleanup confirm that most UXO anomalies can be detected (with probabilities of detection of 90 percent or better), however there is little evidence of discrimination capability (i.e., the false alarm rates are high), and there is no identification capability. Approaches to simultaneously increase probability of detection and decrease false alarm rate and ultimately to give identification/classification capability involve rational multisensor data integration for discrimination and advanced development of new and emerging technology for enhanced discrimination and identification. The goal of multisensor data integration is to achieve true joint inversion of data to a best-fitting model using realistic physics-based models that replicate UXO geometries and physical properties of the UXO and surrounding geologic materials. Data management, analysis, and display procedures for multisensor data are investigated. The role of empirical, quasi-empirical, and analytical modeling for UXO geophysical signature prediction are reviewed and contrasted with approaches that require large signature databases (e.g., expert systems, neural nets, signature database comparison) for training or best-fit comparison. A magnetic modeling capability is developed, validated, and documented that uses a prolate spheroid model of UXO.

Enhanced Electromagnetic Tagging for Embedded Tracking of Munitions and Ordnance During Future Remediation Efforts. Revision 2

Enhanced Electromagnetic Tagging for Embedded Tracking of Munitions and Ordnance During Future Remediation Efforts. Revision 2
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

The program's objective was to investigate means of tagging ordnance items before they are fired or launched and thereby allow a more efficient means for locating unexploded ordnance (UXO) while maintaining very low false alarm rates. Five candidate munitions were selected as being representative of meeting the criteria. Physical mounting options for these five candidate munitions are documented in this report. After investigating radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, Battelle concluded that the Texas Instruments' Tiris 125-kHz magnetic field-sensitive tags offer the highest probability of success for detecting munitions buried three feet or less below the surface. Battelle concludes that using Tiris RFID tags on munitions before they are fired would pay dividends to the U.S. Government. Battelle believes that our testing at the Aberdeen Test Center in 2005 and 2006 demonstrated that properly embedded tags on UXO items can be detected to the needed depth of three feet. Fully developed above-ground interrogators could scan munition ranges at reasonable rates, with a one meter-wide swath and an estimated speed of 2 to 3 mph.

Detection of Subsurface Ordnance

Detection of Subsurface Ordnance
Author: Peter Joachim Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 15
Release: 1978
Genre: Explosives
ISBN:

This report deals with application of total field magnetic and transient electromagnetic (TEM) geophysical methods to the detection of sub-surface unexploded military ordnance (UXO). It is a comparative study, in which the magnetic gradiometer method and the use of the TEM dual-loop coil configeration are included in the discussion. The study began as a result of BMR's involvement in UXO clarance opations at the proposed iste of the ACT Police Drivers Training Centre near Queanbeyan. The site is on Block 106, Gungahlin, adjacent to the Sutton Road and covers the area of approximately 80 hectares. It was formerly part of the Army's Majura Field Firing Range.