Frey, Torsten, Kampmeier, Mareike, Michaelis, Patrick, Wehner, Daniel, Seidel, Marc and Greinert, Jens (2021) Tackling Cost Drivers of Maritime UXO Surveys. In: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS - Influencing Future EOD and Related Capabilities: a book of papers. . NATO EOD Centre of Excellence, Trencin, Slovak Republic, pp. 81-88. ISBN 978-80-89261-93–2

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Abstract

During UXO survey and clearance campaigns, a large number of false positive target points drive costs and efforts. This paper presents three approaches for the improvement of maritime UXO surveys that allow for the immediate execution of target point investigations. (1) Data quality factors were generated to help determine, whether UXO can be detected in the acquired multibeam echosounder (MBES), side-scan sonar, subbottom profiler and magnetic data. (2) Artificial intelligence was developed to rapidly identify target points with potential UXO objects in MBES data. (3) Magnetometers and a high-resolution camera were integrated on an AUV to allow for autonomous target point investigation, that does not require permanent supervision of survey personnel.

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