Detection of buried land mines facilitated by actively provoked IR signature

Jesper Storm; Bent Haugsted

doi:10.1117/12.357027

2 August 1999 Detection of buried land mines facilitated by actively provoked IR signature

Jesper Storm, Bent Haugsted

Proceedings Volume 3710, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IV; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.357027
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper presents findings based on IR thermography in the spectral range of 3-5 micrometers of mine-like objects buried in gravel, where the surface is actively thermally stimulated. Enhanced detectability of buried objects, specifically land mines, is demonstrated to be possible. Priority is given to buried plastic AP mines. Results show that it seems possible to actively provoke an IR signature of near surface mine- like objects and that a time-domain method will be able to distinguish mines from other types of buried objects. Actively provoked IR signatures combined with a time-domain treatment method appear to have potential for further improvement of the localization of buried mines.

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Jesper Storm and Bent Haugsted "Detection of buried land mines facilitated by actively provoked IR signature", Proc. SPIE 3710, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IV, (2 August 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.357027

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