ALIS development for humanitarian demining and its evaluation tests

Author

Sato, Motoyuki ; Takahashi, Kazunori

Author_Institution

CTR for Northeast Asiana Studies, Tohoku Univ., Sendai

fYear

2008

fDate

30-31 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

287

Abstract

ALIS is a hand-held dual-sensor developed for humanitarian demining. The dual-sensor ALIS is equipped with a metal detector and a GPR (ground penetrating radar). An unique and novel sensor tracking system, which can record the GPR and metal detector signal with its location is equipped in ALIS. Due to its sensor location information, we can reconstruct buried land mine images after data acquisition. The image reconstruction, or migration processing drastically increases the quality of the image of the buried objects. ALIS evaluation test was conducted in Croatia in October 2007. Then after, we stared a half-year evaluation test of ALIS in QC test in Croatia in December 2007. This test will be conducted in various soil and environmental conditions in Croatia.

Keywords

data acquisition; ground penetrating radar; image reconstruction; image sensors; landmine detection; metal detectors; optical tracking; ALIS development; ALIS evaluation test; advanced landmine imaging system; data acquisition; ground penetrating radar; hand-held dual-sensor; humanitarian demining; image quality; image reconstruction; land mine image; metal detector signal; migration processing; sensor location information; sensor tracking system; Detectors; Ground penetrating radar; Image reconstruction; Image sensors; Landmine detection; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Sensor systems; Signal detection; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. EuRAD 2008. European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-009-5

Type

conf

Filename

4760857