Dramatic Improvements in UXO Detection Using Discrimination and Dual-Mode Sensor Technology

Abstract

Regulators in Australia will need to take note of new technologies being introduced into the USA that are achieving significant improvements to the detection of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) with fewer false alarms due to geological or metallic fragmentation sources. In a litigation conscious environment, US regulators are beginning to demand that two sensor types (typically magnetic and electromagnetic) be used because this increases the probability of UXO detection. While this adds to the data acquisition cost when two conventional detector systems are used, the principal cost in UXO remediation is the excavation of targets that prove not to be UXO.