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Plastic Landmine Detection using Time-Frequency Analysis for Forward-looking Ground Penetrating Radar

  • University of Florida

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Abstract

We use the time-frequency analysis techniques for buried plastic landmine detection with a forward-looking Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system. Several time-frequency distributions are considered to characterize and interpret the scattering phenomena of both targets and clutter. An ambiguity function based detector is also proposed, which employs principal component analysis for data dimensionality reduction and linear discriminant analysis for feature selection. Experimental results based on the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) experimentally measured forward-looking GPR data are presented, showing a significant detection performance improvement over the conventional detector.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)851-862
Number of pages12
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume5089
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
EventPROCEEDINGS OF SPIE SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VIII - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Apr 21 2003Apr 25 2003

Keywords

  • Forward-looking Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
  • LDA
  • Mine detection
  • Pattern recognition
  • PCA
  • Time-frequency analysis

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