Ultrawideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Landmine Detection

In this paper, we consider landmine detection using ultrawideband synthetic aperture radar, where the two main challenges are feature extraction and discriminator design. The space-wavenumber processing is proposed to retrieve the frequency-and aspect-angle-dependent scattering features of suspected objects. In order to reduce the dimensionality of the input feature vector for a discriminator, the sequential forward floating selection method is used to choose efficient features. Based on the obtained feature vector, a fuzzy hypersphere support vector machine is designed to deal with the problem of detecting landmines in an unconstrained environment. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a significant improvement in detection performance for antitank mines.