To conduct research and develop decision-making and prediction products focused on the sensor-target interaction and influence of terrain and weather environment on signal propagation.


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Signature Physics Support Various Efforts

• Electromagnetic remote sensing and subsurface detection of Unexploded Ordnance (UO).
• Soil characterization in regions of the world of interest to the Army.
• Effects of electrical properties of vegetation and near-surface and sub-ionospheric atmospheric disturbances.
• Characterization of electromagnetic air/surface wave propagation.
• Electromagnetic remote sensing and sub-surface detection of UO.
• Environmental effects on seismic/acoustic wave propagation and sensors.

Seek Out Solutions to the Army's Most Challenging Problems

• Three-D expressions for seismic waves subject to strongly heterogenous near-surface geological conditions for several scalings.
• Three-D expressions for acoustic waves affected by boundary layer meteorology, heterogeneous ground impedance and topographic and terrain feature controls.
• Personnel signatures (seismic, infrared, visual, and acoustic) due to weather, terrain, and cultural activity.

Exciting New Developments

• Seismic signal modeling for battlefield sensors.
• Electromagnetic modeling and numerical methods.
• Signature phenomena and other exploitation techniques for remote sensing of kinetic hazards.
• Infrasound propagation in complex environments.

Signature Physics Core Competencies

• Seismic/acoustic sensing in complex environments.
• Sensor performance modeling, decision making, and uncertainty analyses.
• Sensor-based security.
• Unexploded ordnance discrimination and assessment.
• All-season near-surface phenomenology.

Signature Physics Research Tools

• Ground Penetrating Radar
• Electromagnetic Induction Techniques
• Seismic and Acoustic Real-Time Data Collection
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• High-Performance COmputing Capability
• Stochastical Modeling of Nonlinear Effects