Injuries from land mines.

Dispatches from abroad: laughter amid the land mines.

Beamforming Array for Detecting Buried Land Mines

A beamforming array is investigated for use in a radar system that is part of a hybrid acoustic/electromagnetic technique for detecting land mines. The radar is used to measure the surface displacement of the earth due to acoustic waves in the earth. The beamforming array is used to obtain small spatial resolution for the measurement of the displacement while allowing an adequate stando distanc...

Improving detection of buried land mines through sensor fusion

A sensor-fused system has been developed for detection of buried land mines. The system uses a ground-penetrating radar, an infrared camera, and an electromagnetic induction sensor. In the current implementation each sensor is used independently, and fusion is performed during post-processing. We briefly describe the sensors and a data collection involving buried mine surrogates. Algorithms for...

Detection of anti-personnel land-mines using sensor-fusion techniques

In this paper we present the sensor-fusion results based on the measurements obtained within the European research project GEODE (Ground Explosive Ordnance DEtection system) that strives for the realisation of a vehicle-mounted, multisensor, anti-personnel land-mine detection system for humanitarian demining. The applied decision-level sensor-fusion techniques are Bayesian approaches, applicati...

Detection of buried land mines using scattering of Rayleigh waves

The issue of humanitarian demining becomes increasingly important in the modern world. In the light of this, one of the most urgent problems to be solved is the development of new more effective and safer methods of land mine detection. The idea, which forms the essence of this paper, is based on using scattering of Rayleigh surface waves on buried land mines for their remote detection (at dist...