Title :
Stand off detection of buried anti-personnel landmines
Author :
Johnson, Patrick W.
Author_Institution :
American Electron., Inc, Jefferson, MD, USA
Abstract :
A small, low powered, ultra wideband radar using a picosecond switching system has demonstrated the ability to produce radar images of surface laid landmines using an experimental rail SAR setup at a stand off range of 30 feet.
Keywords :
buried object detection; military radar; military systems; radar detection; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; antipersonnel landmines; buried object detection; geophysical measurement technique; land mine; land surface; landmine; military system; picosecond switching; radar detection; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; stand off detection; surface laid landmines; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; ultra wideband radar; Foot; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Prototypes; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Rails; Synthetic aperture radar; Ultra wideband radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025028
