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One of these sites was the Bluie East Two military air base. A specific feature of this area is that it contained thousands of old barrels formerly used for fuel storage. In 2019, a rehabilitation of this area began. A few months prior to the rehabilitation, our expedition visited the area and mapped it using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This made it probably the latest documentation before the start of the sanitation. The aim of such mapping was to estimate the number of barrels in a given location. The second objective was to monitor the progress of the rehabilitation over the years. For this purpose, satellite data were acquired for the years 2019 through 2022. A supervised classification was performed to automatically detect sites with barrel occurrences, which enabled subsequent change detection. We conclude that a total of 33,786 old barrels were located in the investigated area in 2019. 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