Landmine detection by 3D GPR system

Motoyuki Sato; Yuya Yokota; Kazunori Takahashi; Mark Grasmueck

doi:10.1117/12.918517

10 May 2012 Landmine detection by 3D GPR system

Motoyuki Sato, Yuya Yokota, Kazunori Takahashi, Mark Grasmueck

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Proceedings Volume 8357, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVII; 835710 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918517
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In order to demonstrate the possibility of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for detection of small buried objects such as landmine and UXO, conducted demonstration tests by using the 3DGPR system, which is a GPR system combined with high accuracy positing system using a commercial laser positioning system (iGPS). iGPS can provide absolute and better than centimetre precise x,y,z coordinates to multiple mine sensors at the same time. The developed " 3DGPR" system is efficient and capable of high-resolution 3D shallow subsurface scanning of larger areas (25 m² to thousands of square meters) with irregular topography . Field test by using a 500MHz GPR system equipped with 3DGPR system was conducted. PMN-2 and Type-72 mine models have been buried at the depth of 5-20cm in sand. We could demonstrate that the 3DGPR can visualize each of these buried land mines very clearly.

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Motoyuki Sato, Yuya Yokota, Kazunori Takahashi, and Mark Grasmueck "Landmine detection by 3D GPR system", Proc. SPIE 8357, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVII, 835710 (10 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918517

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