Accession Number:

ADA295153

Title:

Ground Penetrating Radar for Ordnance Contaminated Site Restoration.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Mar 93-Mar 95,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER INDIAN HEAD MD

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1995-03-14

Pagination or Media Count:

348.0

Abstract:

The main purpose of this document is to apply ground penetrating radar GPR technology to the problem of locating and identifying buried ordnance at military sites. The emphasis of the research applied GPR technology to an airborne system that will allow very large parcels of land to be processed. This contract represents one portion of an overall U.S. Government program to clear former and present military ordnance ranges of all unexploded ordnance and other buried devices that pose a threat to the public.

Descriptors:

• *RADAR
• *CONTAMINANTS
• *EARTH PENETRATING DEVICES
• *UNEXPLODED AMMUNITION
• MILITARY FACILITIES
• AIRBORNE
• SITES
• BURIED OBJECTS
• ORDNANCE
• RANGES(FACILITIES)

Subject Categories:

• Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare
• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment
• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE