This paper describes a vehicular mine detection system which automatically detects and marks buried land mines using very recent breakthroughs in mine detection technology. It combines proven detection technologies to realize a near 100 % probability of detection for anti-tank mines. The detection system utilizes information from forward looking thermal and imaging system with downward looking radar and inductive pulse metal detection to sense the presence of buried or obscured land mines. Detection subsystems include: a sensor module, system processor, geographic location module and a real-time mine marking system. It also contains a registration process module which brings all selected targets, either in pixel space or sensor array position, to common platform coordinates, which in turn, are referenced to earth coordinates through GPS tracking of the platform. This registration process is extremely important, especially when integrating IR images from cameras whose positions are in non-nadir orientations. The detection system output provides geographic location of target mines, depth information, approximate mine shape and size, a natural scene image with graphically annotated mine locations.
A multisensor system for mine detection
Ein Mehrsensorsystem zur Minenerkennung
1996
10 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 2 Tabellen
Conference paper
English
Waffe , Wehrtechnik , Sensor , Fahrzeug , Radar , Ortung , Zielerkennung , Infrarotphotographie , Radiometrie , Satellitennavigation
Multisensor Distributed Sequential Detection
Online Contents | 1994
|Multisensor distributed sequential detection
IEEE | 1994
|Multisensor obstacle detection and tracking
British Library Online Contents | 2000
|Fuzzy multisensor tracking system
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
|Online multisensor-multitarget detection and tracking
IEEE | 2006
|