The role of soil in NBT applications to landmine detection problem

Journal Article · Tue Aug 26 04:00:00 EDT 2003 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1619853· OSTI ID:20634239

Obhodas, Jasmina; Sudac, Davorin; Nad, Karlo; Valkovic, Vlado ^[1]; Nebbia, Giancarlo; Viesti, Giuseppe ^[2]

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1. Department of Experimental Physics, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka c.54, 10000 Zagreb (Croatia)
2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35100 Padova (Italy)

Long-term observations of soil water content as well as determination of physical and chemical properties of different types of soils in Croatia were made in order to provide the necessary background information for landmine explosive detection. Soil water content is the key attribute of soil as a background in neutron backscattering technique (NBT) landmine detection application. If the critical value of the soil water content is reached, the detection of landmine explosives is not possible. It is recommended that soil moisture content for NBT application does not exceed 0.1 kg.kg-1 [1]. Nineteen representative samples of different soil types from different parts of Croatia were collected in order to establish soil bank with the necessary physical and chemical properties determined for each type of soil. In addition soil water content was measured on daily and weekly basis on several locations in Croatia. This procedure also included daily soil moisture measurements in the test field made of different types of soils from several locations in Croatia. This was done in order to evaluate the behavior of different types of soils under the same weather conditions.

• OSTI ID: 20634239
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 680; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
BACKSCATTERING
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
CROATIA
EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIVES
MOISTURE
NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY
SOILS