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The subsurface remote-sensing technology currently used in the United States for UXO decontamination is relatively crude, consisting of DC (static) magnetometry. Ultrawideband electromagnetic induction (EMI) is emerging as a technology with reasonable discrimination potential. EMI devices operate in the magneto-quasistatic (MQS) band, usually between tens of Hz and perhaps a couple hundred kHz, and engage a substantially different phenomenology than that of wave electromagnetics. Over the relevant space scales, soil, fresh water, and rock are effectively lossless in the MQS regime, which encourages EMI application.
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O'Neill, K., Fernández, J.P. (2009). Electromagnetic Methods for UXO Discrimination. In: Byrnes, J. (eds) Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Mitigation. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9253-4_10
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