The suitability of ultra-wideband ground-penetrating radar as a tool for the detection of buried metallic mines is explored in this paper. The analysis centers around a 200-800 MHz, dual-polarized ground penetrating radar (GPR) designed and built by SRI International. The analysis consisted of fusing the images from the dual polarizations into a single image to enhance the target objects and suppress clutter. Results are shown for several variations of a Mahalanobis-based fusion technique, and "soft decision" minefield detection results based upon Monte Carlo statistical techniques are also presented. Although relatively few scenes were analyzed, these results show that the dual-polarized GPR is potentially very effective at finding buried mines and minefields.


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    Title :

    Ultra-wideband ground-penetrating radar for the detection of buried metallic mines


    Contributors:
    Earp, S.L. (author) / Hughes, E.S. (author) / Elkins, T.J. (author) / Vickers, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1996-09-01


    Size :

    648845 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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