Subsurface Imaging Using a Handheld GPR MD System

A multisensor system could offer an effective solution to land-mine detection. A handheld dual-sensor system with a position tracking system is developed, which can acquire ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and metal detector (MD) data with 2-D space coordinates. However, as the measurement points are random and data are irregular for the human operator, it is difficult to display subsurface visualization imaging. We develop a set of techniques to achieve visualization imaging of both GPR and MD. A modified migration algorithm with continuous-root-mean-square velocity is proposed to process irregular GPR data, and an interpolation algorithm is recommended to process irregular MD data. In an application to field experiment data, clear subsurface targets imaging was achieved in both GPR slice and MD image.