Unexploded ordnance

Explosive Ordnance Disposal The detection, identification, field evaluations, rendering safe, recovery, and final disposal of unexploded ordnance or munitions chemical agents. 

Abstract Sustainable future use of land containing unexploded ordnance requires... 

The determination of explosives in soils has been mostly commonly associated with the detection of unexploded ordnance such as land mines (both anti-personnel and anti-tank). Chambers et al. [70] designed sampling subsystems for soil/vapor sampling. A probe was used to extract and concentrate vapors of explosives in the pore volume of soil in the vicinity of land mines with sub-part-per-biUion detection limits for TNT and related explosive munitions compounds [70]. As an... 

When we consider possible targets in the context of system design we may group them into three broad classes, all of which may be considered as unexploded ordnance, UXO. Classes 1 and 2, and sometimes all three, are termed explosive remnants of war, ERW by the United Nations, UN. 

The original need that led to development of trace chemical sensors for explosives was the need to restore land that had been abandoned to public or private use. This land was abandoned because of the presence of, or perception of the presence of, mines or unexploded ordnance, often called UXO. These potentially lethal items could be the result of some earlier armed conflict. In that case it is now common to refer to them as explosive remnants of war, or ERW. In some cases the war that left its remnants was concluded many years ago. Dangerous ERW are still found on World War I battlefields, and occasionally on... 

Unexploded ordnance, usually referring to items such as bombs or artillery shells that failed to explode when employed, but also referring to items containing explosives that were abandoned or misplaced. 

The United Nations has adopted the term explosive remnants of war to describe a variety of items that includes mines and unexploded ordnance. 

Dock, M., M. Fisher, and C. Cumming. Novel detection apparatus for locating underwater unexploded ordnance, in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem, Mine Warfare Association, Monterrey, California, April 2002. 

Unmanned underwater vehicle Underwater unexploded ordnance Ultraviolet Unexploded bomb(s)... 

Unexploded ordnance Vehicle-borne improvised explosive device Wood s Hole Oceanographic Institute World Trade Center... 

Foster-Miller has developed robotics technologies with applications to environmental remediation. These robots include FERRET, a materials handling robot Mini-Mucker, a remotely operated dump truck Lemming, a robot designed for the retrieval of unexploded ordnance and TALON, used for explosives detection and ordnance removal. Foster-MiUer can also custom-design robots for specialized tasks. Foster-MiUer s robotics technologies are commercially available. 

Removal and mobilization of exploded and unexploded ordnance (including fired shells containing nerve gas or other harmful chemicals)... 

Chemical Weapons Destruction and Explosive Waste/Unexploded Ordnance Remediation, Editor Noyes, R., Noyes, Park Ridge, NJ, 1996... 

Thomas Stock, Chemical and Biological Weapons Developments and Proliferation , SIPRI Yearbook 1993 World Armaments and Disarmament (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 259-292 Robert Noyes, Chemical Weapons Destruction and Explosive Waste/Unexploded Ordnance Remediation (Westwood, NJ Noyes Publication, 1996) National Research Council, Alternatives to Commercial Incineration of CAIS , in Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Material Disposal Program Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (Washington, DC National Academy Press, 1999), pp. 75-94. 

ITRC (Interstate Technology Regulatory Council). 2004. Geophysical Prove-Outs for Munitions Response Projects, November. Washington, D.C. Interstate Technology Regulatory Council Unexploded Ordnance Team. 

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