Effect of radar undesirable characteristics on the performance of spectral feature landmine detection technique

K. C. Ho; P. D. Gader; J. N. Wilson; H. Frigui

doi:10.1117/12.851381

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29 April 2010 Effect of radar undesirable characteristics on the performance of spectral feature landmine detection technique

K. C. Ho, P. D. Gader, J. N. Wilson, H. Frigui

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Proceedings Volume 7664, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV; 76642A (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.851381
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A factor that could affect the performance of ground penetrating radar for landmine detection is self-signature. The radar self-signature is created by the internal coupling of the radar itself and it appears constant in different scans. Although not varying much, the radar self-signature can create hyperbolic shape or anomaly pattern after ground alignment and thereby increasing the amount of false detections. This paper examines the effect of radar self-signature on the performance of the subspace spectral feature landmine detection algorithm. Experimental results in the presence of strong radar self-signatures will be given and performance comparison with the pre-screener that is based on anomaly detection will be made.

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K. C. Ho, P. D. Gader, J. N. Wilson, and H. Frigui "Effect of radar undesirable characteristics on the performance of spectral feature landmine detection technique", Proc. SPIE 7664, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XV, 76642A (29 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.851381

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