2009 ESTCP UXO Discrimination Study, San Luis Obispo, CA

Abstract

The detection and remediation of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remains a high priority for the Department of Defense (DoD). According to 2003 Defense Science Board (DSB) report [3], the UXO cleanup problem is a very large-scale undertaking involving multi-million acres of land in more than fourteen hundred test sites scattered over the continental United States. It is estimated that only 10% of this area is occupied by UXO. The report estimates the cost of cleanup in the order of tens of billions in dollars. This cost consists of detection and classification of surface, buried, and partially buried UXO, followed by expensive excavation of these anomalies. The problem is aggravated by the fact that most of the UXO detection systems produce a large number of false alarms. This results in digging many holes where no UXO is present.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA579031

Entities

People

  • Lawrence Carin
  • Levi Kennedy
  • Nilanjan Dasgupta
  • Xianyang Zhu

Organizations

  • Signal Innovations Group, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Feature Extraction
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Munitions
  • Probability
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • Uxo Detection

Readers

  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Systems Analysis and Design