[CPEO-MEF] UXO program creates aquatic test site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Digs Fewer Holes, Finds More UXO 

By Nani Gould, U.S. Army Environmental Center 
Environmental Update
Winter 2006


Locating buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) is one of the toughest cleanup
issues facing the military, but emerging technologies can pinpoint and
differentiate between UXO and nonhazardous objects more efficiently than
older methods.

?The new technologies being developed and tested enable the Department
of Defense to increase the accuracy of UXO detection and discrimination
while preserving human health, decreasing environmental contamination
and lowering costs associated with UXO cleanup efforts,? said George
Robitaille, program manager for the U.S. Army Environmental Center
Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Sites Program.

...

The latest addition to the program presents a new challenge to those who
come to evaluate their products - a shallow water UXO burial ground. A
seven-acre manmade pond, complete with buried inert UXO and nonhazardous
clutter items, was constructed to test and gather data on
state-of-the-art detection and discrimination sensors adapted for
aquatic environments. These sensors, attached to small boats, canoes and
even unmanned watercraft, have the ability to find and distinguish
buried UXO from nonhazardous metal, through sediment, at a range of
water depths.

...

For the entire article, see
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/update/win06/win0613.html

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Lenny Siegel
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