Title :
Polynomial phase signal based detection of buried landmines using ground penetrating radar
Author :
Cirillo, Luke A. ; Brown, Christopher L. ; Zoubir, Abdelhak M.
Author_Institution :
Australian Telecommun. Res. Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Put simply, the global landmine problem is massive. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is just one engineering solution currently being investigated. A polynomial amplitude-polynomial phase model is fitted to GPR returns. It is observed that the second order phase coefficient shows deviations from background-only levels when a buried target is present. A bootstrap-based detection scheme is proposed that tests for this change. The technique is applied to real GPR data, with encouraging results
Keywords :
buried object detection; polynomials; radar detection; weapons; GPR; bootstrap-based detection scheme; buried landmines; buried target; ground penetrating radar; polynomial amplitude-polynomial phase model; polynomial phase signal based detection; second order phase coefficient; Australia; Detectors; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Phase detection; Plastics; Polynomials; Radar detection; Signal detection; Soil;
Conference_Titel :
Statistical Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7011-2
DOI :
10.1109/SSP.2001.955248
