Title :
Multiple landmine detection algorithm using ground penetrating radar
Author :
Park, Suncheol ; Kim, Kangwook ; Ko, Kwang Hee
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mechatron., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Gwangju, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper introduces a multiple landmine extraction algorithm from the data which are obtained from the ground penetrating radar (GPR). Conventional algorithms focus on extracting a single landmine. The landmine, however, is not buried under the ground alone in the real cases; it is buried with stones or other landmines. Therefore, detection of multiple landmines is an important problem. The proposed algorithm is composed of two steps. The first step finds the number of buried landmines using the energy projection method. The second step extracts individual buried objects from the data that have multiple landmines using the symmetric filtering method. The experiments show that the proposed algorithm demonstrates the potential of detecting multiple landmines.
Keywords :
filtering theory; ground penetrating radar; landmine detection; radar detection; sensor fusion; GPR; energy projection method; ground penetrating radar; multiple buried landmine detection algorithm; multiple landmine extraction algorithm; symmetric filtering method; Clutter; Feature extraction; Filtering; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Principal component analysis; Symmetric matrices; Ground Penetrating Radar; Landmine Detection; Symmetry Filtering Method;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350746