Classification of Landmine-Like Objects Buried under Rough Ground Surfaces Using a Ground Penetrating Radar

Masahiko NISHIMOTO; Keiichi NAGAYOSHI; Shuichi UENO; Yusuke KIMURA

doi:10.1093/ietele/e90-c.2.327

Classification of Landmine-Like Objects Buried under Rough Ground Surfaces Using a Ground Penetrating Radar

Masahiko NISHIMOTO, Keiichi NAGAYOSHI, Shuichi UENO, Yusuke KIMURA

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A feature for classification of shallowly buried landmine-like objects using a ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurement system is proposed and its performance is evaluated. The feature for classification employed here is a time interval between two pulses reflected from top and bottom sides of landmine-like objects. First, we estimate a time resolution required to detect object thickness from GPR data, and check the actual time resolution through laboratory experiment. Next, we evaluate the classification performance using Monte Carlo simulations from dataset generated by a two-dimensional finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The results show that good classification performance is achieved even for landmine-like objects buried at shallow depths under rough ground surfaces. Furthermore, we also estimate the effects of ground surface roughness, soil inhomogeneity, and target inclination on the classification performance.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E90-C No.2 pp.327-333

Publication Date: 2007/02/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1353

DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.2.327

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and Its Application)

Category: Inverse Problems

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Masahiko NISHIMOTO, Keiichi NAGAYOSHI, Shuichi UENO, Yusuke KIMURA, "Classification of Landmine-Like Objects Buried under Rough Ground Surfaces Using a Ground Penetrating Radar" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics, vol. E90-C, no. 2, pp. 327-333, February 2007, doi: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.2.327.
Abstract: A feature for classification of shallowly buried landmine-like objects using a ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurement system is proposed and its performance is evaluated. The feature for classification employed here is a time interval between two pulses reflected from top and bottom sides of landmine-like objects. First, we estimate a time resolution required to detect object thickness from GPR data, and check the actual time resolution through laboratory experiment. Next, we evaluate the classification performance using Monte Carlo simulations from dataset generated by a two-dimensional finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The results show that good classification performance is achieved even for landmine-like objects buried at shallow depths under rough ground surfaces. Furthermore, we also estimate the effects of ground surface roughness, soil inhomogeneity, and target inclination on the classification performance.
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