[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Classification demonstration at New Boston Air Force Station (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note, the device described in this article is an electromagnetic  
induction device, not radar. - LS]


Ground piercing radar guides New Boston UXO crews

by Scott Prater
Schriever Sentinel
August 7, 2013

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.  -- Unexploded ordnance removal teams  
at New Boston Air Force Station are using a new tool in their mission  
to rid the station of decades-old bombs, rockets and other  
potentially hazardous material.

The 23rd Space Operations Squadron has partnered with the Strategic  
Environmental Research Development Program in a project that should  
help reveal the identity of objects while they're still underground.

Since July, the SERDP team has been conducting a "metal mapper" test  
demonstration, the first on an Air Force site, which is designed to  
differentiate between UXO and cultural debris below ground. If  
proven, this technology will significantly reduce the number of holes  
that have to be dug when anomalies are identified during UXO clearing.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.schriever.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123358896

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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