Download or read book Classification and Mapping of Underwater Unexploded Ordnance UXO written by David Wicklund and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1995, the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) established a calibrated Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) test range offshore the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai. The objective of the range was to provide an area that could be used to validate the performance of commercially available geophysical sensing systems for the mapping and classification of underwater UXO. The range included a calibration site and an operational site, and covered an area of 1.55 square nautical miles. The University of Hawaii Marine Minerals Technology Center (MMTC) conducted a demonstration effort on the range. Evaluation of the MMTC demonstration was performed by NFESC. A total of 257 inert ordnance pieces and 41 false targets were precisely placed on and under the seafloor in water depths from 1 to 50 meters. Targets ranged in size from groups of 7.62-millimeter cartridges to single MK83 bombs. This report describes the design, installation, and decommissioning of the range and includes a summary and evaluation of the MMTC demonstration activities.
Download or read book Classification and Mapping of Underwater Unexploded Ordnance UXO written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1995, the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) established a calibrated Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) test range offshore the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai. The objective of the range was to provide an area that could be used to validate the performance of commercially available geophysical sensing systems for the mapping and classification of underwater UXO. The range included a calibration site and an operational site, and covered an area of 1.55 square nautical miles. The University of Hawaii Marine Minerals Technology Center (MMTC) conducted a demonstration effort on the range. Evaluation of the MMTC demonstration was performed by NFESC. A total of 257 inert ordnance pieces and 41 false targets were precisely placed on and under the seafloor in water depths from 1 to 50 meters. Targets ranged in size from groups of 7.62-millimeter cartridges to single MK83 bombs. This report describes the design, installation, and decommissioning of the range and includes a summary and evaluation of the MMTC demonstration activities.
Download or read book Scoring Underwater Demonstrations for Detection and Classification of Unexploded Ordnance UXO written by Shelley M. Cazares and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metrics for Assessing Underwater Demonstrations for Detection and Classification of Unexploded Ordnance written by Jacob B. Bartel and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Navy Iraq And Afghanistan UXO EOD Ordnance Identification Guides written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naval EOD Technology Division (NAVEODTECHDIV) released the Iraq And Afghanistan Ordnance Identification Guides in support of the U.S. Department of Defense humanitarian mine action program. These guide provides information to facilitate international unexploded ordnance (UXO) awareness and identification. These Guides are not intended for use by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians. Rather, it is designed for other personnel who, of necessity, are trying to identify ordnance in the absence of trained EOD military professionals. They are categorized by major UXO categories, with each section classifying and providing descriptions of specific UXO. These Guides provides detailed information on the following: Bombs Dispensers, clusters and launchers Projectiles Fuzes/firing devices Grenades Rockets Guided missiles Landmines Pyrotechnics Miscellaneous explosive devices Naval mines Depth charges/underwater UXO Scatterables Weapon systems
Download or read book The SQUID Handbook written by John Clarke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume handbook offers a comprehensive and coordinated presentation of SQUIDs (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices), including device fundamentals, design, technology, system construction and multiple applications. It is intended to bridge the gap between fundamentals and applications, and will be a valuable textbook reference for graduate students and for professionals engaged in SQUID research and engineering. It will also be of use to specialists in multiple fields of practical SQUID applications, from human brain research and heart diagnostics to airplane and nuclear plant testing to prospecting for oil, minerals and buried ordnance. While the first volume presents the theory and fabrication of SQUIDs, the second volume is devoted to applications. It starts with an important aspect of the analysis of measured magnetic signals generated by current sources (the inverse problem), and includes several chapters devoted to various areas of application, namely biomagnetism (research on and diagnostics of human brain, heart, liver, etc.), detection of extremely weak signals, for example electromagnetic radiation and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The volume closes with a chapter on motion detectors and the detection of gravity waves.
Download or read book Predicting the Mobility and Burial of Underwater Unexploded Ordnance UXO Using the UXO Mobility Model Field Test Report PMRF Barking Sands Kauai Hawaii written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A process-based underwater unexploded ordinance (UXO) Mobility Model (MM) was developed and exercised with field measurements obtained at two separate offshore sites in a biogenic reef environment off the west coast of the island of Kauai, HI, at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. The MM was used to generate hydrodynamic forcing, UXO migration, and UXO burial simulations that were in general agreement with the ensemble results from 24 inert surrogate 5?/38 projectiles that were monitored between 13 February and 27 June 2007.
Download or read book Predicting the Mobility and Burial of Underwater Unexploded Ordnance UXO Using the UXO Mobility Model ESTCP 200417 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ESTCP Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Mobility Model (MM) validation program expanded the capabilities of the vortex lattice based model previously developed by the Navy for mine modeling applications and then validated the MM with surrogate ordnance in two instrumented field demonstration, one in each of the most common coastal environmental types (Trailing Edge and Biogenic Reef):U.S. Army Filed Research Facility (FRF), Duck, NC, and pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai, HI. The MM correctly predicted all the basic behaviors of the surrogates; the skill factor for modeling migration and burial exceeded 0.8 in both cases, a favorable result with respect to modeling coastal processes and mine burial prediction. The MM is calibrated for the most common coastal environmental and can use wither default environmental conditions or site-specific data inputs to more accurately predict overall probability of movement. It is noted that the primary cost drivers for varying levels of analysis is predicated on the amount of site data available.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Detection and Classification of Underwater Targets written by Vincent Myers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of the proceedings of the International Conference on Detection and Classification of Underwater Targets which took place in Brest, France, in October 2012. This collection of academic papers represents the current state of the art of research and development in the areas of sensor technology, processing, modeling and automation for the purpose of detecting and classifying objects in the underwater environment, written by leading researchers in government, industry and academia. These articles should be of interest not only to those working on underwater target detection, but also to researchers in the related fields of remote sensing, robotic perception and medical imaging.
Download or read book Assessment and Management of Unexploded Ordnance UXO Risk in the Marine Environment written by Nick Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) are explosive weapons that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation. Naval battles, bombing during world wars and the disposal of expired munitions have left UXOs in the sea. These pose a challenge to any construction activity that takes place because of the changing marine environment, poor historical reporting of UXOs, a lack of marine UXO removal specialists, the variety of UXOs and unknown quantities of UXOs that may exist. This book outlines the assessment and management of UXOs.
Download or read book Discrimination of Subsurface Unexploded Ordnance written by Kevin A. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) pose a persistent and expensive problem throughout the world; over 11 million acres are potentially contaminated in the U.S. alone. However, detection requires a very high degree of reliability, the false alarm rate is typically enormous, and cleanup costs are very high. This Tutorial Text addresses the unique challenges of UXO detection and the following topics: fundamental physics and phenomenology; new, successful modeling and analysis methods; the design, development, and testing of new instruments that provide expanded and superior data; innovative processing techniques; and highly successful discrimination performance in blind field tests at standardized sites. The book is written for lay scientists and engineers, as well as specialists in the field, requiring only some familiarity with basic vector calculus and matrix methods, common statistical concepts, and elementary physics.
Download or read book SQUID Sensors written by H. Weinstock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book willbcof value to anyone who wishes to consider the use of SQUID-based magnetic sensing for anyone of a number of practical applications. The focus here is to examine in detail how SQUID technology is used and how. the results of the measurements obtained can be interpreted to provide useful information in a variety of real-world applications. The concentration is on those areas that have received the most attention, namely bioma~etism and nondestructive evaluation, but. the topics chosen include as well, geophysics, underwater ordnance detection, accelerometry and a few somewhat more exotic applications. To provide a reasonable perspective. an attempt has been made to consider competing technologies for most applications, and in some cases to consider how SQUID-based technology may be integrated with other technologies to provide an optimum total-system configuration. It is also the intention of the editor, that this book will be of major value to those scientists and engineers who will be required to build both the essential components and complete cryogenic SQUID systems which will be utilized in the various applications presented. Thus, there is a comprehensive review of the principles of SQUID operation, and a detailed exposition on the fabrication of high-temperature-superconducting (HTS) SQUIDs. Although the market is currently dominated by low-temperature superconducting (L TS) SQUIDs, it is reasonably certain that in the near future HTS SQUIDs will take over in most situations.
Download or read book Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Deteciton Discrimination and Identification written by Dwain Butler and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup is the number one priority Army installation remediation restoration requirement. The problem is enormous in scope, with millions of acres and hundreds of sites potentially contaminated. Before the UXO can be recovered and destroyed, it must be located. UXO location requires surface geopbysical surveys. The geophysical anomalies caused by the UXO must be detected, discriminated from geophysical anomalies caused by other sources, and ideally identified or classified. Recent UXO technology demonstrations, live site demonstrations, and practical UXO surveys for site cleanup confirm that most UXO anomalies can be detected (with probabilities of detection of 90 percent or better), however there is little evidence of discrimination capability (i.e., the false alarm rates are high), and there is no identification capability. Approaches to simultaneously increase probability of detection and decrease false alarm rate and ultimately to give identification/classification capability involve rational multisensor data integration for discrimination and advanced development of new and emerging technology for enhanced discrimination and identification. The goal of multisensor data integration is to achieve true joint inversion of data to a best-fitting model using realistic physics-based models that replicate UXO geometries and physical properties of the UXO and surrounding geologic materials. Data management, analysis, and display procedures for multisensor data are investigated. A magnetic modeling capability is developed, validated, and documented that uses a prolate spheroid model of UXO. The electromagnetic modeling of UXO signatures is more problematic, and an intermediate quasi-empirical modeling capability (a simple analytical model modified to reflect measured signature observations) is explored.
Download or read book The SQUID Handbook written by J. Clarke and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume handbook offers a comprehensive and coordinated presentation of SQUIDs (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices), including device fundamentals, design, technology, system construction and multiple applications. It is intended to bridge the gap between fundamentals and applications, and will be a valuable textbook reference for graduate students and for professionals engaged in SQUID research and engineering. It will also be of use to specialists in multiple fields of practical SQUID applications, from human brain research and heart diagnostics to airplane and nuclear plant testing to prospecting for oil, minerals and buried ordnance. While the first volume presents the theory and fabrication of SQUIDs, the second volume is devoted to applications. It starts with an important aspect of the analysis of measured magnetic signals generated by current sources (the inverse problem), and includes several chapters devoted to various areas of application, namely biomagnetism (research on and diagnostics of human brain, heart, liver, etc.), detection of extremely weak signals, for example electromagnetic radiation and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The volume closes with a chapter on motion detectors and the detection of gravity waves.
Download or read book Multisensor Methods for Buried Unexploded Ordnance Detection Discrimination and Identification written by Dwain K. Butler and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup is the number one priority Army installation remediation/restoration requirement The problem is enormous in scope, with millions of acres and hundreds of sites potentially contaminated. Before the UXO can be recovered and destroyed, it must be located. UXO location requires surface geophysical surveys. The geophysical anomalies caused by the UXO must be detected, discriminated from geophysical anomalies caused by other sources, and ideally identified or classified. Recent UXO technology demonstrations, live site demonstrations, and practical UXO surveys for site cleanup confirm that most UXO anomalies can be detected (with probabilities of detection of 90 percent or better), however there is little evidence of discrimination capability (i.e., the false alarm rates are high), and there is no identification capability. Approaches to simultaneously increase probability of detection and decrease false alarm rate and ultimately to give identification/classification capability involve rational multisensor data integration for discrimination and advanced development of new and emerging technology for enhanced discrimination and identification. The goal of multisensor data integration is to achieve true joint inversion of data to a best-fitting model using realistic physics-based models that replicate UXO geometries and physical properties of the UXO and surrounding geologic materials. Data management, analysis, and display procedures for multisensor data are investigated. The role of empirical, quasi-empirical, and analytical modeling for UXO geophysical signature prediction are reviewed and contrasted with approaches that require large signature databases (e.g., expert systems, neural nets, signature database comparison) for training or best-fit comparison. A magnetic modeling capability is developed, validated, and documented that uses a prolate spheroid model of UXO.
Download or read book Information Systems for Divers and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating in Very Shallow Water and Surf Zone Regions written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Filtering in One and Two Dimensions written by M. Ahmadi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been conceived to extend the generally published work on one- and two-dimensional digital filters in order to include some of the more recently developed ideas. It is intended to supplement and build on the classical books which cover the fundamental concepts of the topic. As a consequence of this, the basic theory is stated in a compact manner and is not developed thoroughly, as this would result in considerable duplication of existing books. The main theme of the book has been to provide a comprehensive background to the methods available for the realization of both recursive and nonrecursive digital filters, and to give an insight into some of the more recent implementation procedures. The book is planned to cover one- and two-dimensional systems in parallel, showing the techniques which are applicable in both areas, and also the limitations and constraints necessary when a one-dimensional technique is extended to systems of higher dimensionality. The theme of the book commences with several chapters on the design of filter transfer functions to meet given specifications. This is followed by a discussion of methods of implementing these in a practical system and the limitations imposed as a result of noise and finite word length. Finally, a discussion of some applications is included.
