T o address the hazards to civilians, recent landmine systems have incorporated command detonation by remote operator and self-destruct capabilities (see the “Landmines through the Ages” sidebar). However, these additions didn’t let the mines adaptively counter breach attempts and might have actually increased the need to monitor mine location to allow command detonation. Nor did they allow ope...

The paper deals with design and modelling of four cost-effective crawling robots for landmine localization in uneasy accessible areas covered by thick vegetation. As a universal solution to the landmine problem is unlikely to be achieved in the short time, according to what many other researchers think, time is worth spent on trying to solve a specific aspect of the global problem, rather then ...

Landmines, specifically anti-tank mines, cluster bombs, and unexploded ordnance form a serious problem in many countries. Several landmine sweeping techniques are used for minesweeping. This paper presents the design and the implementation of the vision system of an autonomous robot for landmines localization. The proposed work develops state-of-the-art techniques in digital image processing fo...

The landmines presence causes serious safety hazards, which demand the clean up of contaminated land. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is considered as a powerful nondestructive testing tool for high-resolution imaging of the shallow subsurface and its ability to detect both metallic and non-metallic landmines. The contrast in the dielectric constant between a landmine and the surrounding soil is...

In real field demining, soldiers can only judge the landmine location and type by the sound generated from a landmine detector. Therefore, a virtual landmine detection training system can replicate the sound in a realistic manner is imperative. In this paper, several sound datasets for various targets have been collected. Each dataset contains about 500 instances, each representing a different ...

This appendix focuses on the impact of signal-processing techniques on the landmine detection problem and suggests research investments that will allow continued performance improvement. The focus is primarily on processing of electromagnetic induction (EMI) data, although results for other sensors as well as sensor fusion will be discussed. Signal-processing algorithms for landmine detection m...

Measurements of the top surface vibration of a buried (inert) VS 2.2 anti-tank plastic landmine reveal significant resonances in the frequency range between 80 and 650 Hz. Resonances from measurements of the normal component of the acoustically induced soil surface particle velocity (due to sufficient acoustic-to-seismic coupling) have been used in detection schemes. Since the interface between...

Nowadays, in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, land mines are posing a major danger to the lives of civilians. These explosive devices that designed disable or destroy enemy targets typically hidden beneath surface ground. Most placed just below ground triggered by pressure trip-wires. They contain number metallic components, which can be used detect them. The set up during times war may ...

Syntactic landmine detection has been proposed to detect and classify non-metallic landmines using ground penetrating radar (GPR). In this approach, the GPR return is processed to extract characteristic binary strings for landmine and clutter discrimination. In our previous work, we discussed the preprocessing methodology by which the amplitude information of the GPR A-scan signal can be effect...