An automatic landmine detection algorithm using Ground Penetrating Radar is described. The algorithm combines outputs of multiple detection and feature extraction algorithms to generate a single confidence that a landmine is present at a location. The combination is performed using a fuzzy inference system. Results are provided for real data obtained in real-time with the Geo-Centers Vehicle Mo...

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...

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 ...

---Infrared Image characteristics have some interesting capabilities that may assist in the detection of shallowly buried objects, in particular to help in the identification of landmine contaminated areas. This paper presents some preliminary results for the detection of buried Anti-Personnel Landmines (APLs) using an infrared imaging system. We describe an algorithm for the detection of landm...

Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could provide: i) safer operation; ii) advanced methods for automatic target recognition and discrimination; iii) consistent performance with less influence of “human-factors”; iv) better detection performance, i.e., higher probability of detection ...

What is a landmine? The purpose of a landmine is to disable, immobilize or kill. It is an explosive device activated either by a person or vehicle, or command detonated by electric wire or radio signal. Most landmines are laid on or just below the surface of the ground and are activated by pressure or trip-wire. Normally manufactured from very durable materials such as plastic, bakelite, concre...

A single beam laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) has been used in acoustic-to-seismic landmine detection in a stop-andstare scanning mode [Sabatier, J. M. and Xiang, N. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39, 2001, pp.11461154.; Xiang, N. and Sabatier, J. M., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, Mar. 2003]. One of the major requirements is the operational scanning speed in the acoustic detection methods....

Legacy landmines in post-conflict areas are a non-discriminatory lethal hazard and can still be triggered decades after the conflict has ended. Efforts to detect these explosive devices expensive, time-consuming, dangerous humans animals involved. While methods such as metal detectors sniffer dogs have successfully been used humanitarian demining, more tools required for both site surveying acc...