Identification of mine-shaped objects based on an efficient phase stepped-frequency radar approach
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چکیده
A computational efficient approach to identify very small mine-shaped plactic objects, e.g. M56 AntiPersonnel (AP) mines buried in the ground, is presented. The size of the objects equals the smallest AP-mines in use today, i.e., the most difficult mines to detect with respect to humanitarian mine clearance. Our approach consists of three stages, the phase stepped-fiequency radar method, generation of a quartemary image and template crosscorrelation. The phase stepped-frequency radar method belongs to the class of stepped-frequency radar methods, see e.g [l]. In a two-dimensional meshgrid above the ground a radar probe is moved automatically to measure in each grid point a set of reflection coefficients from which phase and amplitude information are extracted. Based on a simple processing of the phase information, quartemary image and template cross-correlation a successfull detection of metaland non-metal mine-shaped objects is possible. Measurements have been performed on loamy soil containing different mine-shaped objects.
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