Development of an ultra wide-band SAR for minefield detection

Author

Gasson, Dr Julia ; Hughes, Dr David ; Poulter, Mark ; Crisp, Dr Graeme

Author_Institution

Defence Evaluation & Res. Agency, Chertsey, UK

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2474

Abstract

The UK Government is currently funding a Remote Minefield Detection System (REMIDS) technology demonstrator programme (TDP). This programme is being managed by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). The aim of this programme is to build and trial an airborne system capable of identifying and locating minefields. The focus of the programme is to detect fields of metallic or plastic anti-vehicle mines that are either shallow buried or on the surface. Two complementary sensors have been chosen for the technology demonstrator, these are a polarimetric infrared imager and an ultra wide-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR). This paper is concerned with the design of the ultra wide-band SAR sensor, for which Systems Engineering and Assessment (SEA) Ltd. are the prime contractor

Keywords

airborne radar; buried object detection; military systems; radar detection; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; DERA; Defence Evaluation and Research Agency; REMIDS; Remote Minefield Detection System; SAR; UK; airborne radar; buried object detection; ground penetrating radar; landmine; military system; mine detection; minefield; radar remote sensing; shallow buried; surface; synthetic aperture radar; technology demonstrator programme; ultra wide-band; Design engineering; Focusing; Government; Infrared image sensors; Plastics; Radar detection; Sea surface; Sensor systems; Synthetic aperture radar; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771547

Filename

771547