Analyze imagery and other data collected at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Unfortunately, areas of waste disposal at DOE sites are not all documented and located. There are a number of reasons for this situation: records have been lost or destroyed, the locations were not documented, and memories have been lost. The search of large areas at these sites for buried waste and buried-waste containers is a difficult and expensive problem when using conventional, ground-based methods. Typical conventional methods involve the drilling of wells/boreholes (point sampling), and interpolation is required to obtain the needed a real information. Drilling for buried waste is expensive, potentially hazardous, and time-consuming, yet accurate interpolation can require a large number of holes per-unit-area. A similar problem is encountered in gaining current information about: the boundaries of toxic waste plumes in the ground, transport pathways, and the composition and concentration of toxic materials. The purpose of this effort is to analyze existing imagery data collected under various Department of Energy and other programs. This analysis will be useful for screening, characterization, and monitoring work in the waste site remediation process