DARPA background clutter data collection experiment: excavation results

Abstract

Most technologies in use or proposed for use to detect landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) suffer from unacceptably high false-alarm rates, even at modest probabilities of detection. High false-alarm rates are a consequence of the inability to discriminate real UXO and landmines from man-made and naturally occurring clutter. The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)- sponsored Background Clutter Data Collection Experiment is to provide data which will support the development of techniques that are more adept at discriminating UXO from benign, man- made objects. During the fall of 1996, high areal density site surveys were completed using the following sensor types: magnetometer, infrared, electromagnetic induction, and ground- penetrating radar. Preliminary analysis of the data confirmed that a large number of anomalies in the sensor data are visually indistinguishable from anomalies that are a result of emplaced inert UXO or landmines. The Firing Point 20 site at Fort A. P. Hill exhibits the largest number of these ordnance- like anomalies. To determine the source of a subset of these sensor response anomalies, a 1-week excavation effort was conducted. This paper presents an analysis of the data to determine the candidate locations for, the procedures used during, and the results of the excavation.

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@article{george1998darpa,
  title = {{DARPA background clutter data collection experiment: excavation results}},
  author = {George, Vivian and Altshuler, Thomas W. and Rosen, Erik M.},
  journal = {Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE},
  volume = {3392},
  pages = {1000},
  year = {1998},
  doi = {10.1117/12.324147}
}

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