Wide Area Assessment (WAA) for Marine Munitions and Explosives of Concern

Abstract

Well-developed standardized methodologies and approaches for assessment of terrestrial munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) exist; however, there are currently no standardized approaches for wide area assessment (WAA) of MEC in freshwater or marine environments. The objective of this demonstration was to address the lack of a standardized approach for detecting and locating underwater MEC over large areas. To accomplish this objective, Tetra Tech EC, Inc. (TtEC) developed an approach utilizing multiple underwater detection and mapping technologies and instruments to acquire data sets, which were then used to evaluate ordnance-related conditions and geophysical features representing potential underwater MEC. The platform used for collecting magnetometer data was TtEC s Marine Gradiometer Array (MGA), which houses instrumentation demonstrated to be effective for the location and identification of MEC in marine or freshwater environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA571849

Entities

Organizations

  • Environmental Security Technology Certification Program

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Seabed
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unexploded Ammunition

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Canadian European Scientific Immigration and Epilepsy Clearance Studies
  • Marine Ecological Systems Migration
  • Software Engineering.