Controlled field experiments of wind effects on thermal signatures of buried and surface-laid landmines

Remke L. van Dam; Brian Borchers; Jan M.H. Hendrickx; Sung Hong

doi:10.1117/12.540700

21 September 2004 Controlled field experiments of wind effects on thermal signatures of buried and surface-laid landmines

Remke L. van Dam, Brian Borchers, Jan M.H. Hendrickx, Sung Hong

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Proceedings Volume 5415, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IX; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540700
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Thermal signatures of buried land mines depend on a complex combination of environmental conditions, soil properties, and properties and burial depth of the land mine. Due to the complex nature of the problem most modeling and experimental efforts to understand thermal signatures of land mines have focused on the effects of one or a few variables. Of these variables, the effect of wind speed has received little attention in modeling and experimental studies. In this contribution we discuss the role of wind in the generation of thermal images and we present results of field experiments at the outdoor land mine detection test facility at New Mexico Tech. Here, several anti-tank and anti-personnel land mine simulants have been buried in sand, loam, and clay soils. During the measurements the environmental and soil conditions were continuously monitored using a fully equipped weather station and using probes for measurements of soil temperature and soil water content.

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Remke L. van Dam, Brian Borchers, Jan M.H. Hendrickx, and Sung Hong "Controlled field experiments of wind effects on thermal signatures of buried and surface-laid landmines", Proc. SPIE 5415, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IX, (21 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540700

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