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Tracking Barges Carrying Dangerous Cargo 

Mississippi State University SERRI Success Story
Tracking Barges Carrying Dangerous Cargo


  •  Barge tracking is important to national security.


    Source:  U.S. Dept. of Transportation, October 1998, Hazardous Materials Shipment

 
Texas City Explosion
3130 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate
(Equals 2 Barges of Ammonium Nitrate)

  •  MSU is developing a prototype to provide better information on hazardous movements by barges.
  • Prototype will enhance detection of potential threats related to hazardous movements on inland waterways.
  • Collaborators: