Vietnam is a country that found itself at the center of Indochina wars and was subjected to most intense aerial bombing in history. However, little research has been done on effect unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination household livelihoods rural Vietnam. In this paper, we investigate contaminating households. Livelihood choices are classified by cluster analysis techniques, measured district...

A few promising solutions for thermal imaging Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection were proposed after the start of military conflict in Ukraine 2014. At same time, most landmine clearance protocols and practices are based on old, 20th-century technologies. More than 60 countries worldwide still affected by explosive remnants war, new areas contaminated almost every day. To date, no automated ex...

Military test ranges containing unexploded ordnance due to live-fire testing and training exercises are a significant safety problem in many locations. Automated cleanup of such sites is a challenging goal. Towards this end, this paper describes algorithms to detect a type of ordnance in current usage using color imagery. The techniques are designed to run in realtime using off-the-shelf hardwa...

W. E. Doll, P. Hamlett, J. Smyre, and D. Bell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6038, P O Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6038; J. E. Nyquist, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; T. J. Gamey and J. S. Holladay, Aerodat Ltd, Mississauga, Ont Canada Y$MXEIVED HMQ3= ABSTRACT United States Defense Department estimates indicate that as many as 11 million acres o government land in the U. S. may con...

A Finite Element Method (FEM) is presented to solve for the scattered magnetic vector potential from arbitrarily polarized targets typical of those encountered in Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection. Most previously developed numerical methods only solved problems in which axial symmetry could be exploited. This, of course, severely limits the capabilities and utility of such methods. The metho...

Airborne magnetic systems for mapping unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other shallow metals have been developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) over the past five years .We have recently completed testing of a time-domain electromagnetic (EM) system to supplement the magnetic system for UXO investigations. The test was conducted at the Badlands Bombing Range (BBR) in South Dakota in Septem...