Detection of tunnel excavation using fiber optic reflectometry: experimental validation

Raphael Linker; Assaf Klar

doi:10.1117/12.2015534

7 June 2013 Detection of tunnel excavation using fiber optic reflectometry: experimental validation

Raphael Linker, Assaf Klar

Proceedings Volume 8709, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVIII; 87090X (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015534
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Cross-border smuggling tunnels enable unmonitored movement of people and goods, and pose a severe threat to homeland security. In recent years, we have been working on the development of a system based on fiber- optic Brillouin time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) for detecting tunnel excavation. In two previous SPIE publications we have reported the initial development of the system as well as its validation using small-scale experiments. This paper reports, for the first time, results of full-scale experiments and discusses the system performance. The results confirm that distributed measurement of strain profiles in fiber cables buried at shallow depth enable detection of tunnel excavation, and by proper data processing, these measurements enable precise localization of the tunnel, as well as reasonable estimation of its depth.

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Raphael Linker and Assaf Klar "Detection of tunnel excavation using fiber optic reflectometry: experimental validation", Proc. SPIE 8709, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVIII, 87090X (7 June 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015534

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