Detection of Antipersonnel Mines by Using the Factorization Method on Multistatic Ground-Penetrating Radar Measurements

Author

Fischer, Christian ; Herschlein, Alexander ; Younis, Marwan ; Wiesbeck, Werner

Author_Institution

FADS Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen

Volume

45

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

92

Abstract

The factorization method (FM) has been applied to measurement data from a multistatic ground-penetrating radar operating in close proximity to the ground, which was used in a measurement campaign on the Joint Research Centre mine test lane in Ispra, Italy. This paper is targeted toward a future hand-held demining system. The according space limits restrict an independent positioning of transmit and receive antennas. Hence, very small multistatic datasets are obtained, representing a difficult case for the reconstruction with the FM

Keywords

Green´s function methods; explosives; ground penetrating radar; matrix decomposition; Ispra; Italy; Joint Research Centre mine test lane; antipersonnel mines; factorization method; hand-held demining system; multistatic ground-penetrating radar measurement; receive antennas; transmit antennas; Antenna measurements; Dielectric losses; Ground penetrating radar; Image reconstruction; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Receiving antennas; Sampling methods; Soil; Testing; Angular diversity; Green´s function; antipersonnel mine; discrete complex image method (DCIM); factorization method (FM); ground-penetrating radar (GPR); linear sampling method; multistatic radar; stratified media;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2006.883464

Filename

4039618