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War Heritage Institute x DISARM-project
The War Heritage Institute is always happy to contribute to research, especially when the research is of importance for nature and people! The DISARM project seeks to improve methods that map (underwater) dumping sites of (chemical) munitions. These dump sites pose a real threat internationally for which current detection methods are inadequate. For this research, the War Heritage Institute made part of its First World War collection available.
The researchers organised several triaxial tests with obuses from our collection to improve current magnetic measurement equipment. Simply put, this means that they took measurements from different distances, placing the obuses horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The researchers then linked the known positions with the resulting magnetic ‘imprints’, in order to build models that image future munitions dumping sites in much higher detail.
