DocumentCode :
1100940
Title :
Land mine detection by infrared thermography: reduction of size and duration of the experiments
Author :
Muscio, Alberto ; Corticelli, Mauro A.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ingegneria Meccanica e Civile, Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Volume :
42
Issue :
9
fYear :
2004
Firstpage :
1955
Lastpage :
1964
Abstract :
The effectiveness of infrared thermography applied to the detection of abandoned land mines is not yet acceptable. It can probably be improved, however, by computerized processing of the thermal images. This requires reference data, which must be provided mainly by experiments. A method is presented here, by which the heating and cooling cycles of a soil with a buried land mine can be replicated with reduced size and duration. The reference data acquired in the laboratory can be associated to realistic on-field tests by simply stretching the space and time scales. This will permit to reproduce indoors, quickly and effortlessly, the outdoor conditions of any place where the detection of buried land mines must be performed. In this paper, the general thermal problem is described, and the proposed method is comprehensively explained. The results of computer simulations and some laboratory tests are finally reported for validation.
Keywords :
data acquisition; image processing; infrared imaging; landmine detection; terrain mapping; abandoned land mines; buried land mine; buried object detection; computer simulations; computerized image processing; data acquisition; experiment duration reduction; experiment size reduction; infrared measurements; infrared thermography; land mine detection; nondestructive testing; remote sensing; soil cooling cycles; soil heating cycles; solar radiation; thermal images; Computer simulation; Cooling; Heating; Infrared detectors; Laboratories; Landmine detection; Nondestructive testing; Soil; Solar radiation; Vegetation mapping; Buried object detection; infrared measurements; nondestructive testing; simulation; solar radiation;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0196-2892
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TGRS.2004.831443
Filename :
1333180
Link To Document :
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