On the use of energy density spectra for discriminating between landmines and clutter objects

Author

Ho, K.C. ; Gader, P.D. ; Wilson, J.N. ; Glenn, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO, USA

Volume

3B

fYear

2005

fDate

3-8 July 2005

Firstpage

84

Abstract

The paper studies the use of energy density spectra (EDS) derived from ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements on a sub-surface target to discriminate between landmines and clutter objects. The GPR used to collect the data is frequency swept and has a bandwidth of 1.4 GHz. Our investigation indicates that the EDS reveals distinct characteristics between landmine targets and many clutter objects, and hence can be exploited for their discrimination. Experimental results based on data measured at a government test site corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; landmine detection; radar clutter; radar signal processing; spectral analysis; 1.1 to 2.5 GHz; 1.4 GHz; GPR measurements; clutter objects; energy density spectra; ground penetrating radar measurements; landmines; sub-surface target; Bandwidth; Clutter; Detectors; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Object detection; Radar detection; Signal processing algorithms; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8883-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2005.1552438

Filename

1552438