Kevin O'Neill

KEVIN O'NEILL received the B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1968, followed by the M.A. (1974), M.S.E. (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from Princeton University, Department of Civil Engineering. After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), he joined CRREL as a Research Civil Engineer. His research has focused on numerical modeling of porous media transport phenomena and of geotechnically relevant electromagnetic problems. He has been a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Agronomy at Cornell University, a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Applications at MIT, and since 1984 has been on the adjunct faculty of the Thayer School. Current work centers on modeling of electromagnetic remote sensing of surfaces, layers, and especially buried objects.

Contact Info:

Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC/CRREL)

72 Lyme Rd, Hanover, NH 03755, 603-646-4312 (fax -4640)

koneill@ERDC.usace.army.mil

History:

Oct 1977 - present: Researcher and adjunct faculty, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Oct 1978 - present: Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC

Sept 1989 - present Visiting Scientist, MIT Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Application

Ph.D. in Water Resources Program, Dept. of Civil Engg, Princeton University, Jan 1978.

M.A. and M.S.E. Princeton University, 1974.

Cornell Univ. Distinction in All Subjects Award, Dean's List, B.A. magna cum laude 1968.

Selected Recent Publications:

K. O'Neill (1997). Exploration of innovative radar sensing schemes for subsurface object detection, Proc. IEEE Intl Geosci. Rem. Sens. Symp. (IGARSS'97), 1135-1137.

K. O'Neill (1997). Radar detection of near-surface buried metallic reflectors in wet soil,IGARSS'97, 1288-1290.

Arcone, Steven A., Kevin O'Neill, Allan J. Delaney, and Paul Sellmann (2000) UXO detection at Jefferson Proving Ground using ground-penetrating radar. ERDC/CRREL TR-00-5.

K. O'Neill (2000). Broadband bistatic coherent and incoherent detection of buried objects beneath randomly rough surfaces, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., vol 38(2/2), 891-898.

K. O'Neill (2000). Radar sensing of surface layers and near surface objects, IEEE TGARS. vol 38(1),480-495.

K.R. Rao, C.C. Chen, R. Lee, and K. O'Neill (2000). A comparison of broad-bandwidth radar scattering characteristics of buried UXO and non-UXO objects, UXO Forum, Anaheim, May 2000(CDROM).

C.C. Chen, M. Higgins, K. O'Neill and R. Detsch (2000). Tyndall AFB Measurement Results Of UXO Characterization Using Full-Polarimetric UWB GPR, UXO Forum, Anaheim, May 2000.

C.C. Chen, M. Higgins, K. O'Neill and R. Detsch (2000). UWB Full-Polarimetric Horn-Fed Bow-Tie (HFB) GPR Antenna for Buried Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Discrimination, IGARSS2000, Honolulu, July 2000.

K. Sun, K. O'Neill, S.A. Haider, F. Shubitidze and K.D. Paulsen (2000). Numerical modeling of electromagnetic induction scattering from targets with small but non-negligible skin depths, IGARSS2000, Honolulu, July 2000.

K. Sun, K. O'Neill, S.A. Haider, and K.D. Paulsen (2000). Simulation of electromagnetic induction scattering from targets with negligible to moderate penetration by primary fields, sub. for publ., IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing.

C.O Ao, H. Braunisch, K. O'Neill, and J.A. Kong (2000). Quasi-magnetostatic solution for a conducting and permeable spheroid, Proc. Int'l Geosci. & Remote Sensing Symp, Honolulu, July, 2000(CDROM).

C.O Ao, H. Braunisch, K. O'Neill, and J.A. Kong (2000). Quasi-magnetostatic solution for a conducting and permeable spheroid subject to arbitrary excitation, subm. for publ., IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing.

H. Braunisch, C.O. Ao, K. O'Neill, and J.A. Kong (2000). Magneto-quasi-static response of a distribution of small conducting and permeable objects, IGARSS2000, Honolulu, July 2000 (CDROM).

K. O'Neill (2001). Discrimination of UXO in soil using broadband polarimetric GPR backscatter, IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, vol 39, No.2, 356-367.

K. O'Neill, S.A. Haider, S. Geimer, and K.D. Paulsen (2001). Effects of the Ground Surface on Polarimetric Features of Broadband Radar Scattering from Subsurface Metallic Objects, IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, Vol 39, No. 7, 1556-1565.

H. Braunisch, C.O. Ao, K. O'Neill, and J.A. Kong (2001). Magneto-quasi-static analytical solution for scattering and absorption by a prolate spheroid: axial case, IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, accepted for publ.

C-C. Chen, M.B. Higgins, K. O'Neill and R. Detsch (2001). UWB Fully-polarimetric GPR Classification of Subsurface Unexploded Ordnance, IEEE Trans. Geosci. & Remote Sensing, Vol 39, No 6, 1221-1230.

K. O'Neill, F. Shubitidze, I.J. Won and D. Keiswetter (2001). Use of Ultra-wideband Spectroscopy to Enhance Electromagnetic Induction Discrimination, URSI2001, Boulder, CO, paper 22201.

F. Shubitidze, K. O'Neill, S.A. Haider, K. Paulsen (2001). The Method of Auxiliary Sources for Analysis of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Induction Sensor Responses, URSI2001, Boulder, CO, paper 22118.

K. O'Neill, S. Haider, F. Shubitidze, K. Sun, C.O. Ao, H. Braunisch, and J.A. Kong (2001). Ultra-wideband electromagnetic spectroscopy, Proc. UXO Forum, New Orleans, April 10-12,2001.

C. O. Ao, H. Braunisch, K. O'Neill, J. A. Kong, L. Tsang, and J.T.Johnson (2001). Broadband electromagnetic induction response from conducting and permeable spheroids, Proc. SPIE, vol.4394: Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VI, Orlando, April 16-20, 2001.