Estcp San Luis Obispo Classification Demonstration

The second demonstration in the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program’s<br>Classification Pilot Program was conducted in the summer of 2009 at a range on former Camp San Luis Obispo, CA that contained a mix of munitions. The objective of the demonstration was to correctly classify as many of the detected buried objects as possible as non-hazardous and thus safe to leave in the ground. A number of commercial and developmental magnetometer and electromagnetic induction sensor systems were used to map the site. The detected anomalies in each sensor data set were analyzed by a number of groups to extract target parameters. After training on roughly 200 excavated targets, each analyst constructed a prioritized list of the roughly 1300 remaining anomalies indicating which were non-hazardous, which were hazardous, and which could not be successfully analyzed. Substantial classification performance was achieved in the analysis of carefully collected commercial EMI sensor data and even better performance was achieved by the developmental, cued sensors that were demonstrated. Example results are presented as receiver operating characteristic curves.