The development of a low-cost motion capture based landmine detection training system is presented in this paper. Two Nintendo Wii Remotes (Wiimotes) are used to form a stereo vision system to obtain the position and orientation of the simulated physical landmine detector. The position data is used to compute the distance between the detector and a virtual mine, and the distance is used to gene...

ISSN 2277 – 503X | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a nondestructive technique used for the location of objects or interfaces buried beneath the earth’s surface or located within a visually opaque structure. This research work proposes techniques for buried object discrimination for the images generated by GPR by using GPR frequency-domain spectral features. The motiv...

This article, presents two robots developed by IntRoSys, S. A.. Poseidon, is a walking robot capable of scanning a large area encompassed by itself with a set of landmine detection sensors. The 3 by 3 m free area encompassed by the structure, plus the wide and accurate mobility of the payload sensors, makes this solution a remarkably useful tool for accurate sensor fusion and consequently for d...

---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...

-Field experience has shown that soil conditions can have large effects on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) detection of landmines. We discuss available models for the prediction of the dielectric constant from soil physical properties including bulk density, soil texture, and water content. The soil dielectric constant determines the attenuation of the radar signal. The contrast between the diel...

We assessed depression, anxiety and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in 137 cases of landmine injury in Ilam province, using the Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (HADS) and the Short Form Health Survey (SF36) questionnaires. We also compared their scores with an uninjured control group (n = 360). Most of the injured were male (93.4%) and illiterate (54.7%) with some irreversible sequel...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a promising sensor for landmine detection, however there are two major problems to overcome. One is the rough ground surface. The other problem is the distance between the antennas of GPR. It remains irremovable clutters on a sub-surface image output from GPR by first problem. Geography adaptive scanning is useful to image objects beneath rough ground surface. ...

This paper presents a new approach to the detection of anti-personnel landmines which is based on the physical detection of landmines using a sharpened probe in a fashion similar to that employed by human deminers. Reviews of current techniques , proposed new sensor technologies, and current uses of robotic devices within landmine detection are presented. This is followed by a description of ou...

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....

Although a small number of landmines were introduced into modern warfare during World War I, the tactics of landmine use, both in the deployment and removal, did not become clear until World War II. By 1939, the German and Italian armies had developed both antitank and antipersonnel landmines, which were used effectively against the Allied forces. Naturally, the Allies developed techniques for ...