Bistatic landmine and IED detection combining vehicle and drone mounted GPR sensors

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This work proposes a novel Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system to detect landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The system, which was numerically evaluated, is composed of a transmitter placed on a vehicle and looking forward and a receiver mounted on a drone and looking downwards. This combination offers both a good penetration and a high resolution, enabling the detection of non-metallic targets and mitigating the clutter at the air-soil interface. First, a fast ray tracing simulator was developed to find proper configurations of the system. Then, these configurations were validated using a full wave simulator, considering a flat and a rough surface. All simulations were post-processed using a fast and accurate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) algorithm that takes into account the constitutive parameters of the soil. The SAR images for all configurations were compared, concluding that the proposed contribution greatly improves the target detection and the surface clutter reduction over conventional forward-looking GPR systems.

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Garcia-Fernandez, M., Morgenthaler, A., Alvarez-Lopez, Y., Las Heras, F., & Rappaport, C. (2019, October 1). Bistatic landmine and IED detection combining vehicle and drone mounted GPR sensors. Remote Sensing. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192299

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