A few promising solutions for thermal imaging Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection were proposed after the start of military conflict in Ukraine 2014. At same time, most landmine clearance protocols and practices are based on old, 20th-century technologies. More than 60 countries worldwide still affected by explosive remnants war, new areas contaminated almost every day. To date, no automated ex...

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A procedure is described for computing range and orientation invariant spectral signatures of buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) from electromagnetic induction (EMI) data. The normalized eigenvalues of the magnetic polarizability tensor that characterizes the target response are used as the orientation-invariant spectral signatures. It is shown that the eigenvalues can be normalized with respect ...

According to the Department of Defense, over 10 million acres of land in the US need to be cleared of buried unexploded ordnance (UXO). Worldwide, UXO injures thousands each year. Cleanup costs are prohibitively expensive due to the difficulties in discriminating buried UXO from other inert non-UXO objects. Government agencies are actively searching for improved sensor methodologies to detect a...

Wages and Gender Composition: Why do Women's Jobs Pay Less? Author(s): David A. Macpherson and Barry T. Hirsch Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 426-471 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535151 . Accessed...

An ultra-wideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is investigated for the detection of former bombing ranges, littered by unexploded ordnance (UXO). The objective is detection of a high enough percentage of surface and shallow-buried UXO, with a low enough false-alarm rate, such that a former range can be detected. The physics of UWB SAR scattering is exploited in the context of a h...

We present a user interface that utilizes handtracking and gesture detection to provide a natural and intuitive interface to a semi-autonomous robotic manipulation system. The developed interface leverages humans and robots for what they each do best. The robotic system performs object detection, and grasp and motion planning. The human operator oversees high-level task assignment and manages u...