Optimal Experiments With Seismic Sensors

Author

Alam, Mubashir ; Cevher, Volkan ; McClellan, James H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of detecting and locating buried land mines and subsurface objects by using seismic waves. We demonstrate an adaptive seismic system that maneuvers an array of receivers, according to an optimal positioning algorithm based on the theory of optimal experiments, to minimize the number of distinct measurements to localize the mine. The adaptive localization algorithm is tested using numerical model data as well as laboratory measurements performed in a facility at Georgia Tech. It is envisioned that the future systems should be able to incorporate this new method into portable mobile mine-location systems

Keywords

image sensors; landmine detection; remote sensing; seismic waves; adaptive localization algorithm; adaptive seismic system; buried land mines detection; optimal positioning algorithm; receivers array; seismic sensors; seismic waves; subsurface objects detection; Adaptive arrays; Adaptive systems; Buried object detection; Laboratories; Landmine detection; Numerical models; Position measurement; Seismic measurements; Seismic waves; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661176

Filename

1661176