Remote Detection of Unexploded Ordnance-Ground Penetrating Radar
Abstract
The US Congress, through Public law 98-212, charged the Department of Defense to institute a remedial action program to materials and ordnance. As part of the response, the US Army Corps of Engineers tasked the US Navy, as the lead service in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), to develop and demonstrate different systems each capable of detecting, locating, and partially identifying shallow buried, unexploded ordnance. The Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center (NAVEODTECHCEN), through the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and various contractors, reviewed current technology and identified three technological approaches offering high promise of success on a responsive time scale: (1) surface electromagnetics, (2) surface magnetometry, and (3) borehole electromagnetics/magnetometry. A demonstration prototype Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Ordnance Search System (RADAR), based on surface electromagnetics, was developed and delivered to the NAVEODTECHCEN under Contract Number N00014- 86-C-2266.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA253486