A hand-held dual-sensor system using impulse GPR for demining

Author

Takahashi, Kazunori ; Sato, Motoyuki

Author_Institution

Fed. Inst. for Mater. Res. & Testing, Berlin

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

160

Abstract

A hand-held dual-sensor system for demining has been developed. The system integrates ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and a metal detector. One of the features of the system is imaging capability. The system achieves the position information by tracking the sensor head. Thus synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing can be applied and the performance can be significantly improved. The system was tested by real deminers in Croatia 2007. The trial results confirmed that false alarms (alarms from other than landmines) were significantly reduced by using GPR, meaning total demining operation can be accelerated. Them we started a half-year evaluation test of the system in quality-control (QC) test in Croatia in December 2007. This test will be conducted in various soil environmental conditions in Croatia.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; quality control; synthetic aperture radar; Croatia; SAR; demining; ground-penetrating radar; hand-held dual-sensor system; impulse GPR; quality-control test; synthetic aperture radar; Acceleration; Detectors; Ground penetrating radar; Head; Landmine detection; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Sensor systems; Synthetic aperture radar; System testing; Ground-penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine detection; dual-sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2008. ICUWB 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2216-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653440

Filename

4653440