Remote detection of buried land-mines and IEDs using LWIR polarimetric imaging

Detection of buried land mines using scattering of Rayleigh waves

The issue of humanitarian demining becomes increasingly important in the modern world. In the light of this, one of the most urgent problems to be solved is the development of new more effective and safer methods of land mine detection. The idea, which forms the essence of this paper, is based on using scattering of Rayleigh surface waves on buried land mines for their remote detection (at dist...

Improving detection of buried land mines through sensor fusion

A sensor-fused system has been developed for detection of buried land mines. The system uses a ground-penetrating radar, an infrared camera, and an electromagnetic induction sensor. In the current implementation each sensor is used independently, and fusion is performed during post-processing. We briefly describe the sensors and a data collection involving buried mine surrogates. Algorithms for...

Beamforming Array for Detecting Buried Land Mines

A beamforming array is investigated for use in a radar system that is part of a hybrid acoustic/electromagnetic technique for detecting land mines. The radar is used to measure the surface displacement of the earth due to acoustic waves in the earth. The beamforming array is used to obtain small spatial resolution for the measurement of the displacement while allowing an adequate stando distanc...

Detection of Buried Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Using Microbolometer and Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT)-based Infrared (IR) Polarimetric Sensors

Land cover land use mapping and change detection analysis using geographic information system and remote sensing

Land cover/land use categories are relevant components in land management. Understanding how land cover/land use change over time is necessary to assess the consequences of humans and natural stressors on the earth’s environment and resources. The aim of the study was to map and monitor the spatial and temporal change in land cover/land use for the periods of 1977, 1991 and 2016 and to predict ...