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Landmines and unexploded ordnance pose a significant international public health risk and economic threat. Worldwide, an estimated 60 to 110 million anti-personnel landmines have been placed in >70 countries. According to UN sources, as many as two million new mines are laid every year, but due to the high cost of removal, only 200,000 mines are defused each year. Landmines pose a serious ongoi...

The goal of this work presented in a two-companion paper is to pave the way for reliably assessing risks damage buildings on shore, induced by detonation large-charge historical ordnance (i.e., countermining) variable shallow water environments. Here, we focus impact marine environment, more specifically unconsolidated sedimentary layer, detonation-induced seismo-acoustic wave propagation. We r...

We describe a method for recognizing surface-lying ordnance in test ranges using stereo range information and image edge maps. This method is to be used by an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) surveying the test range for autonomous clearing of ordnance. We concentrate on a particular type of cylindrical ordnance (BLU-97) in current usage in U.S. military test ranges. In order to locate instances o...

We describe a method for recognizing surface-lying ordnance in test ranges using stereo range information and image edge maps. This method is to be used by an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) surveying the test range for autonomous clearing of ordnance. We concentrate on a particular type of cylindrical ordnance (BLU-97) in current usage in U.S. military test ranges. In order to locate instances o...

we have applied an automatic interpretation method of potential data called an-eul in unexploded ordnance (uxo) prospective which is indeed a combination of the analytic signal and the euler deconvolution approaches. the method can be applied for both magnetic and gravity data as well for gradient surveys based upon the concept of the structural index (si) of a potential anomaly which is relate...

Pedemis (PortablE Decoupled Electromagnetic Induction Sensor) is a time-domain handheld electromagnetic induction (EMI) instrument with the intended purpose of improving the detection and classification of UneXploded Ordnance (UXO). Pedemis sports nine coplanar transmitters (the Tx assembly) and nine triaxial receivers held in a fixed geometry with respect to each other (the Rx assembly) but wi...

Buried military munitions, such as bombs, artillery projectiles, rockets and landmines can present serious safety hazards. Geophysical investigations are often used to detect such munitions so that they can be safely recovered and destroyed. However, different geophysical methods each have particular capabilities and limitations. Magnetometers and gradiometers are well suited to detecting ferro...