Nondestructive remote sensing of hazardous waste sites
- EnTech Engineering, Inc., St. Louis, MO (United States)
In the past government and private industry have produced hazardous waste in ever increasing quantities. These untold millions of tons of environmentally dangerous wastes have been disposed of by undocumented burial, simple carelessness and purposeful abandonment. Society has recently dictated that before new construction may be initiated, these wastes must be found and cleaned up. The first step is to locate these undocumented waste depositories. The non-contact, nondestructive, remote sensing techniques, of Computer Enhanced Infrared Thermography and Ground Penetrating Radar, may be used to detect buried waste sites, buried tanks/pits, and tank/pit leak plumes. These technologies may be used from mobile vehicles, helicopters or man-portable systems and are able to cover tens of acres per day depending upon the system fusion method used. This relatively new combination of technologies, win be described in theory, by procedure and the use of case studies based upon successful projects.
- OSTI ID:
- 207939
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940449-; ISBN 0-8194-1521-9; TRN: IM9616%%267
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers conference on intelligent information systems, Orlando, FL (United States), 4-8 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Aerial surveillance sensing including obscured and underground object detection; Cindrich, E.; Del Grande, N.K.; Gowrinathan, S.; Johnson, P.B.; Shanley, J.F. [eds.]; PB: 443 p.; Proceedings/SPIE, Volume 2217
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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