The UXO Discrimination Study at the Former Camp Sibert
Abstract
The Fiscal Year 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill contained funding for the "Development of Advanced, Sophisticated, Discrimination Technologies for UXO Cleanup" in the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). The discrimination demonstration carried out at the former Camp Sibert near Gadsden, AL, was in direct response to the Congressional language. The high-level goal of the demonstration was to assess the capability of discrimination algorithms that had been developed under the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and refined under ESTCP to determine reliably which items could be left safely in the ground and which had to be dug. The intent of the demonstration was to evaluate on a live site those algorithms that had proven successful in previous testing, principally at engineered test sites. Another important goal was to involve the regulatory community early in the design of the demonstration in an effort to better understand what might be required if detected anomalies were actually to be left in the ground. This report provides a detailed record of the scoring of the detection and discrimination performance of all the demonstrators, sensors and algorithms involved in the pilot program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA506309
Entities
People
- Michael J. May
- Michael Tuley
- Shelley Cazares
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses