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GPR Development for Landmine Detection  

Sato, Motoyuki (Center for Northeast Asian Studios, Tohoku University)
Fujiwara, Jun (Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.)
Feng, Xuan (Center for Northeast Asian Studios, Tohoku University)
Zhou, Zheng-Shu (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide)
Kobayashi, Takao (Center for Northeast Asian Studios, Tohoku University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.8, no.4, 2005 , pp. 270-279 More about this Journal
Abstract
Under the research project supported by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), we have conducted the development of GPR systems for landmine detection. Until 2005, we have finished development of two prototype GPR systems, namely ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System) and SAR-GPR (Synthetic Aperture Radar-Ground Penetrating Radar). ALIS is a novel landmine detection sensor system combined with a metal detector and GPR. This is a hand-held equipment, which has a sensor position tracking system, and can visualize the sensor output in real time. In order to achieve the sensor tracking system, ALIS needs only one CCD camera attached on the sensor handle. The CCD image is superimposed with the GPR and metal detector signal, and the detection and identification of buried targets is quite easy and reliable. Field evaluation test of ALIS was conducted in December 2004 in Afghanistan, and we demonstrated that it can detect buried antipersonnel landmines, and can also discriminate metal fragments from landmines. SAR-GPR (Synthetic Aperture Radar-Ground Penetrating Radar) is a machine mounted sensor system composed of B GPR and a metal detector. The GPR employs an array antenna for advanced signal processing for better subsurface imaging. SAR-GPR combined with synthetic aperture radar algorithm, can suppress clutter and can image buried objects in strongly inhomogeneous material. SAR-GPR is a stepped frequency radar system, whose RF component is a newly developed compact vector network analyzers. The size of the system is 30cm x 30cm x 30 cm, composed from six Vivaldi antennas and three vector network analyzers. The weight of the system is 17 kg, and it can be mounted on a robotic arm on a small unmanned vehicle. The field test of this system was carried out in March 2005 in Japan.
Keywords
Land mine detection; Hand-held sensor; Metal Detector; GPR; Position tracker; visualization; ALIS; SAR-GPR; Synthetic Aperture Radar; SAR;
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