Performance of demining sensors and soil properties

Kazunori Takahashi; Holger Preetz; Jan Igel

doi:10.1117/12.883798

23 May 2011 Performance of demining sensors and soil properties

Kazunori Takahashi, Holger Preetz, Jan Igel

Proceedings Volume 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI; 80170X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883798
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Metal detector has commonly been used for landmine detection and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is about to be deployed as dual sensor that is in combination with metal detector. Since both devices employ electromagnetic techniques, they are influenced by magnetic and dielectric properties of soil. To observe the influence, various soil properties as well as their spatial distributions were measured in four types of soil where a field test of metal detectors and GPRs took place. By analyzing soil properties these four types of soil were graded based on the estimated amount of influence on the detection techniques. The classification was compared to the detection performance of devices obtained from the blind test and a clear correlation between the difficulty of soil and the performance was observed; the detection and identification performance were degraded in soils that were classified as problematic. Therefore, it was demonstrated that the performance of metal detector and GPR for landmine detection can qualitatively be assessed by geophysical analyses.

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Kazunori Takahashi, Holger Preetz, and Jan Igel "Performance of demining sensors and soil properties", Proc. SPIE 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI, 80170X (23 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883798

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