Application of time-frequency techniques for the detection of anti-personnel landmines

Author

Barkat, B. ; Zoubir, A.M. ; Brown, C.L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

594

Lastpage

597

Abstract

In this paper we propose two methods to detect buried underground objects. Both methods are based on time-frequency analysis. The first approach uses the instantaneous frequency of the return ground penetrating radar (GPR) signals and the second approach uses a time-frequency distribution (such as the Wigner-Ville distribution or the spectrogram) of the return signals. Real data were used in the examples to validate the proposed algorithms

Keywords

Wigner distribution; buried object detection; radar applications; radar detection; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; spectral analysis; time-frequency analysis; GPR; Wigner-Ville distribution; anti-personnel land mine detection; ground penetrating radar; instantaneous frequency; return signals; spectrogram; time-frequency analysis; time-frequency distribution; underground objects; Application software; Australia; Buried object detection; Dielectrics; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Radar detection; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Time frequency analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Statistical Signal and Array Processing, 2000. Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pocono Manor, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5988-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSAP.2000.870194

Filename

870194