Title :
Multi-sensor system for mine detection
Author :
Steinway, William J. ; Duvoisin, Herbert A. ; Tomassi, Mark S. ; Thomas, James E. ; Betts, George ; Morris, Carl ; Kahn, Barry ; Stern, Peter ; Krywick, Scott ; Johnson, Kevin ; Dennis, Kevin ; Simoneaux, Wanda ; Blood, Ben
Author_Institution :
Coleman Res. Corp., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
A multi-sensor approach to buried object discrimination has been developed by Coleman Research Corporation (CRC) under a US Army handheld standoff mine detection system (HSTAMIDS) effort to produce a practical successor to currently prevalent metal detectors. The CRC multi-sensor unit integrates with standard metal detectors to enable the detection of low-metallic and non-metallic anti-tank and anti-personnel mines as well as the older metallic-jacketed mines. The unit thus provides additional detection capability without loss of the existing metal detection (MD) capability. The added sensors include Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) and Infrared (IR). The GPR consists of a lightweight (<1 LB) snap on antenna unit, a belt attached electronics unit (<5 LB) and batteries
Keywords :
infrared detectors; military equipment; object detection; remote sensing by radar; sensor fusion; Coleman Research Corporation; Ground Penetration Radar; HSTAMIDS; US Army handheld standoff mine detection system; anti-personnel mine; anti-tank mine; buried object detection; infrared sensor; metal detection; metallic-jacketed mine; multi-sensor system; Batteries; Belts; Buried object detection; Cyclic redundancy check; Detectors; Ground penetrating radar; Infrared sensors; Object detection; Radar antennas; Radar detection;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702861
