Fully polarimetric measurements over a minefieldlike test site with video impulse ground penetrating radar

Vsevolod Kovalenko; Alexander G. Yarovoy; Fridrich Roth; Leo P. Ligthart

doi:10.1117/12.486914

11 September 2003 Fully polarimetric measurements over a minefieldlike test site with video impulse ground-penetrating radar

Vsevolod Kovalenko, Alexander G. Yarovoy, Fridrich Roth, Leo P. Ligthart

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Proceedings Volume 5089, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VIII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486914
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The results of the measurement campaign, which has been held recently at the test facilities for landmine detection systems located at TNO-FEL (The Hague, the Netherlands), are presented. The test facilities give an opportunity to evaluate system performance in different environment (such as grass, sand, clay, etc.) under controlled conditions. The test lanes contain various types of antipersonnel and antitank mines. In this campaign we used the Video Impulse Ground Penetrating Radar that has recently been developed in the IRCTR. The design of the radar allows us to perform simultaneous full-polarimetric measurements in two ultra-wide frequency bands. Furthermore, the scattered from subsurface electromagnetic field is measured in quasi-monostatic and essentially bistatic antenna configurations. The acquired during the measurement campaign data are of high quality in terms of time stability, radar positioning and signal-to-noise ratio. This has allowed to extract full-polarimetric target responses and to analyze them. The obtained results are of importance for target classification.

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Vsevolod Kovalenko, Alexander G. Yarovoy, Fridrich Roth, and Leo P. Ligthart "Fully polarimetric measurements over a minefieldlike test site with video impulse ground-penetrating radar", Proc. SPIE 5089, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VIII, (11 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486914

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