Design and Construction of the NRL Baseline Ordnance Classification Test Site at Blossom Point

摘要

The Chemistry Division of the Naval Research Laboratory has established a Test Field for the development and validation of models intended to discriminate ordnance from clutter at the Army Research Laboratory's Blossom Point research facility. Targets buried in the test field include inert ordnance, ordnance simulants, test shapes, and representative clutter at a variety of depths and orientations. The items have been deployed in a 6-m spacing grid with 61 of the 75 grid positions occupied. The top three rows of the grid are intended for calibration purposes and contain one example each of the non-clutter targets. The test field has been used in several completed and on-going NRL projects and is available for use by other government agencies and their contractors.