Discrimination and classification of buried unexploded ordnance using magnetometry

SD Billings - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic surveys are quite successful at locating buried steel objects, including unexploded
ordnance (UXO). However, many of the anomalies apparent in a magnetic image of a …

Review of magnetic modeling for UXO and applications to small items and close distances

DK Butler, JE Simms, JS Furey… - Journal of Environmental …, 2012 - library.seg.org
Prior to 1990, UXO were generally modeled or approximated as compact, ferrous objects;
the model was effectively a uniformly magnetized sphere of iron at a specified or an …

Magnetic models of unexploded ordnance

SD Billings, C Pasion, S Walker… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetometry is widely used for the characterization of areas contaminated by unexploded
ordnance (UXO). To successfully discriminate hazardous UXO from nonhazardous clutter …

Selecting a discrimination algorithm for unexploded ordnance remediation

L Beran, DW Oldenburg - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review the algorithms that have been used to discriminate between hazardous
unexploded ordnance (UXO) and harmless clutter. Statistical classifiers use model …

Numerical modeling of higher order magnetic moments in UXO discrimination

V Sanchez, Y Li, MN Nabighian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The surface magnetic anomaly observed in unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance is
mainly dipolar, and consequently, the dipole is the only magnetic moment regularly …

Analytical modeling of magnetic and gravity signatures of unexploded ordnance

DK Butler, PJ Wolfe, RO Hansen - Journal of Environmental & …, 2001 - library.seg.org
The dominant cost and time driver in unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup is the necessity
of digging (excavating)“false alarm” gèophysical anomalies. As many as 75% of all the …

UXO discrimination and identification using magnetometry

SD Billings, LR Passion… - Symposium on the …, 2002 - library.seg.org
UXO DISCRIMINATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MAGNETOMETRY Introduction Page 1
UXO DISCRIMINATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MAGNETOMETRY Stephen D. Billings …

Electromagnetic measurement of molten metal level in pyrometallurgical furnaces

A Saleem, PR Underhill, D Chataway… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate control of molten metal levels during pyrometallurgical smelting operations is
critical to improve process decision-making and maximizing production efficiency, such as …

[PDF][PDF] Inversion of magnetics for UXO discrimination and identification

SD Billings, LR Pasion, DW Oldenburg - Proc. 2002 UXO Forum, Orlando …, 2002 - Citeseer
Inversion of total-field magnetics to recover the dipole moment of an anomaly provides
valuable discrimination information. Using the recovered dipole moment it is not possible to …

Phase-angle-based EMI object discrimination and analysis of data from a commercial differential two-frequency system

C Bruschini, H Sahli - … for Mines and Minelike Targets V, 2000 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The EPFL and the VUB have been investigating the response of metal detectors within the
framework of humanitarian demining research activities, in particular frequency domain …