In this paper the multi sensor fusion results obtained within the European research project GEODE (Ground Explosive Ordnance Detection system) are presented. The lay out of the test lane and the individual sensors used are described. The implementation of the SCOOP algorithm improves the ROC curves, as the false alarm surface and the number of false alarms both are taken into account. The confi...

Landmines are an open problem in many countries of the world. They cause injuries and death and no technique proposed to date guarantees fast and 100% reliable detection alone. To this purpose, at the Humanitarian Demining Laboratory of “La Sapienza” University of Rome, several solutions are being studied. In this paper, numerical simulations of a prototype thermal detection system are reported...

Humanitarian demining is a very urgent and important task for many countries and many techniques are proposed for its solution [1]. We have developed a bistatic GPR system using an Optical Electric Field Sensor (OEFS) as a receiver for landmine detection [2]. This system has two unique features, one is that it is a bistatic radar and the other one is to use a OEFS as a receiver. Therefore, it i...

Good feature selection method is an essential step in a classification system. That is especially true for detection systems that have to deal with low signal-to-noise ratio, and varying background conditions, which is the case for landmine detection systems. Proposed method analyzes spectrum of a signal collected from the microphone placed inside the deminers prodder and extracts set of featur...

A lthough landmine clearance employs various techniques, manual demining still accounts for a large part of mine-removal operations. The metal detector is the most common tool used in manual demining. Ground-penetrating radar was studied and tested as a complementary tool to the metal detector, because it can identify buried objects and accelerate operations. As the metal detector and GPR emplo...

Full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar (FP-GPR) can measure the ability of an object to change polarization electromagnetic waves. Compared traditional GPR, it has a stronger capability identify underground objects. In recent years, series decomposition methods have been applied FP-GPR data processing obtain polarimetric attributes and enhance targets identification. Different characterize ...