Characterization of the internal structure of landmines using ground penetrating radar

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dc.contributor.authorLombardi, Federico
dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, Hugh D.
dc.contributor.authorLualdi, Maurizio
dc.contributor.authorBalleri, Alessio
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-17T10:33:56Z
dc.date.available2020-02-17T10:33:56Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-13
dc.description.abstractOne of the principal limitations of employing Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for landmine detection is the presence of clutter, i.e. reflections from the surrounding environment which might interfere with the landmine echoes. Clutter presents similar scattering characteristics of typical targets and may significantly raise the detection threshold of the system. A capability to characterise the internal structure of a buried target might provide key unique information to develop advanced landmine-clutter discrimination algorithms, considering that the presence of internal scattering components can be univocally associated to man-made targets. In this paper, the possibility of identifying and characterising these contributions from the GPR signature of a landmine is numerically assessed and experimentally validated. The simulated response from a landmine-like target shows that the presence of the internal structure generates additional reflection peaks, as a consequence of the layered structure of the object, and the field trials corroborate that it is possible to identify these scattering components and delineate their spatial distribution.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationLombardi F, Griffiths HD, Lualdi M, Balleri A. (2021) Characterization of the internal structure of landmines using ground penetrating radar. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2021, pp. 266-270en_UK
dc.identifier.cris26020680
dc.identifier.issn1545-598X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2970249
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15137
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIEEEen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectGround-penetrating radar (GPR)en_UK
dc.subjectLandmine imagingen_UK
dc.subjectRadar image reconstructionen_UK
dc.subjectTrace positioningen_UK
dc.titleCharacterization of the internal structure of landmines using ground penetrating radaren_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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