Optimised field delineation of contaminated soils

该项目寻求以经济高效的方式确定需要补救的土壤场地的污染区域。在澳大利亚的城市和农村，有成千上万的地点受到金属和/或有机物的污染，世界各地有数千万个地点。这些地点对人类健康构成了严重的潜在威胁。检测(和补救)这类地点的费用很高。该项目旨在通过红外和X射线光谱仪的新组合，结合数据融合的土壤推断和优化的定向采样和绘图，提供一种更便宜的检测方法。这是为了减少检测和补救的经济障碍，大大加快消除这一健康风险。由此产生的新技术可以在国际上转让和商业化。

This project seeks to cost-efficiently identify the contaminated areas of a soil site which will require remediation. There are many thousands of sites contaminated with metals and/or organics across urban and rural Australia and some tens of millions across the world. These sites pose a serious potential threat to human health. Detection (and remediation) of such sites is expensive. The project aims to deliver a cheaper method of detection through a novel combination of infra-red and X-ray spectroscopies combined with data-fused soil inference and optimised directed sampling and mapping. This is intended to reduce the economic barrier to detection and remediation, considerably hastening the removal of this health risk. Resulting novel technology could be transferred and commercialised internationally.