Case Study: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers improves UXO detection and cleanup with Seequent

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Customer Case Study

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers faced the challenge of safely detecting unexploded ordnance (UXO) at active and former military sites, where inconsistent field data and varying contractor methods made cleanup investigations difficult and risky. Seequent, through its Geosoft technology, supported the Corps with tools for data quality assurance and quality control, later extending into UXO Land and UX-Analyze for UXO characterization and classification.

Seequent’s software helped standardize and validate geophysical data, allowing analysts to better distinguish UXO from scrap metal and reduce unnecessary digging. The combined solution has been shown to stop excavation of up to 90% of non-UXO targets, saving significant time and money, and it is now mandated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for all FUDS cleanup projects except special cases.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Amy Walker

Quality Assurance Geophysicist