Image processing techniques for detection of buried objects with infrared images

Alexander Cerón-Correa

doi:10.1117/12.650711

17 January 2006 Image processing techniques for detection of buried objects with infrared images

Alexander Cerón-Correa

Proceedings Volume 6062, Spectral Imaging: Eighth International Symposium on Multispectral Color Science; 606205 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.650711
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This document describes the principles of infrared thermography and its application to humanitarian demining in the world as well as the factors influencing its application in a country like Colombia which suffers badly the problem posed by antipersonnel mines. The main factors that affect the images taken by different sensors are: day time, mine size and material, installation angle, object's burial depth, moisture, emissivity, wind, rain, as well as other objects in the proximity shadowing the images. Infrared image processing methods and results of tests done in different sites of the country such as Cartagena, Bogota, and Tolemaida are also shown. Finally, a method for the detection of the presence of a buried object is presented with its successful results.

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Alexander Cerón-Correa "Image processing techniques for detection of buried objects with infrared images", Proc. SPIE 6062, Spectral Imaging: Eighth International Symposium on Multispectral Color Science, 606205 (17 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.650711

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