Cryogenics as a means to improve the detection of land mines

Giovanni De Amici; Bruce I. Hauss

doi:10.1117/12.396254

22 August 2000 Cryogenics as a means to improve the detection of land mines

Giovanni De Amici, Bruce I. Hauss

Proceedings Volume 4038, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396254
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The performance of passive microwave radiometers in detecting buried landmines is adversely affected by the presence of foreign objects and moisture in the soil. One possible way to increase the signal contrast between the mine and the surrounding soil is to make the soil artificially dry by reducing the moisture to its solid state. This can be accomplished by injecting liquid nitrogen into the top layers of the soil. This paper describes preliminary result of an experiment designed to test this approach under controlled laboratory conditions.

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Giovanni De Amici and Bruce I. Hauss "Cryogenics as a means to improve the detection of land mines", Proc. SPIE 4038, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V, (22 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396254

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