Wide-area detection of land mines and unexploded ordnance

Lawrence Carin, Norbert Geng, Mark McClure, Yanting Dong, Zhijun Liu, Jiangqi He, Jeffrey Sichina, Marc A. Ressler, Lam Nguyen, Anders Sullivan

Inverse Problems · 2002 · 18 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

Advanced electromagnetic modelling tools are discussed, focused on sensing surface and buried land mines and unexploded ordnance, situated in a realistic soil environment. The results from these forward models are used to process scattered-field data, for target detection and identification. We address sensors directed toward the wide-area-search problem, for which one is interested in detecting a former mine field or bombing range. For this problem class we process data measured from an actual airborne radar system. Signal-processing algorithms applied include Bayesian processing and a physics-based hidden Markov model.

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