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Title: Intelligent Unmanned Monitoring of Remediated Sites

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:780765

During this Phase I project, IOS demonstrated the feasibility of combining digital signal processing and neural network analysis to analyze spectral signals from pure samples of several typical contaminants. We fabricated and tested a prototype system by automatically analyzing Raman spectral data taken in the Vadose zone at the 321 M site in the M area of DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This test demonstration proved the ability of IOS's technology to detect the target contaminants, tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE), in isolation, and to detect the spectra of these contaminants in real-world noisy samples taken from a mixture of materials obtained from this typical remediation target site.

Research Organization:
Oakland Operations Office, Oakland, CA Intelligent Opitical Systems, Inc.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-00ER83023
OSTI ID:
780765
Report Number(s):
1; TRN: US200609%%271
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English