During the World War I ,II over fifty countries in the world today have been inherited a legacy of antipersonnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) which represents a major threat to lives, and hinders reconstruction and development efforts. Landmines have specific properties that make it harder to detect .Therefore; these properties lead landmine detectors to become more complex. Many exa...

After a brief introduction to Humanitarian Demining we will review the basic principles of the electromagnetic detection of metallic objects, especially induction devices (“metal detectors”), and see how they are applied in Humanitarian Demining and Civil Engineering, with emphasis on visualization techniques. We will then report on tests of a commercial “imaging metal detector” aimed at trying...

The U.S. Army holds title to one of the most envied weapon systems developed-the Abrams main battle tank (MBT). Militarily, this weapon represents the epitome of lethality and survivability on today's modern battlefield. To combat difficulties associated with maintaining this sophisticated weapon, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School (OC&S) combin...

The experimental work mentioned in this paper has been supported jointly by grants from The Rockefeller Foundation and the Dr. Wallace C., and Clara A. Abbott Memorial Fund of The University of Chicago. Thomas Park expresses his deep appreciation to the following friends for criticism, constructive suggestions, and advice: Thomas Burnett, Charles Elton F.R.S., A. E. Emerson, P. W. Frank, Don W....

This report describes a dataset of color, stereo images of ordnance collected at a live-re test range near Nellis Air Force Base. The images consist primarily of BLU-97 shells. 174 stereo pairs of images were collected, containing approximately 184 instances of BLU-97. The data was collected using a pair of Kodak DCS-410 digital cameras mounted rigidly on a tripod. Subsequent processing was per...

The United States military is continuing to research and is beginning to employ OWL-related information representation technologies. The Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal (JEOD) Decision Support System (DSS) is using OWL to present relevant procedural information to warfighters. The United States Air Force (USAF) is experimenting with representing portions of the Foreign Clearance Guide (FCG) i...

We outline a number of high temperature superconducting Josephson junction-based devices including superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) developed for a wide range of applications including geophysical exploration, magnetic anomaly detection, terahertz (THz) imaging and microwave communications. All these devices are based on our patented technology for fabricating YBCO step-edg...

Georeferencing of multitemporal aerial imagery is a time-consuming and challenging task that typically requires a high degree of human intervention, and which appears in application domains of critical importance, like unexploded ordnance detection. In order to make a semi-automatic scenario possible, we introduce a Visual Analytics approach for multitemporal aerial image georeferencing designe...