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An experimental study on airborne landmine detection using a circular synthetic aperture radar

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2020-05-06
Authors
Schartel, Markus
Burr, Ralf
Bähnemann, Rik
Mayer, Winfried
Waldschmidt, Christian
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Link to original publication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02600
Faculties
Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Informatik und Psychologie
Institutions
Institut für Mikrowellentechnik
External cooperations
Technische Hochschule Ulm
Endress+Hauser SE+Co
ETH Zürich
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submitted version
Abstract
Many countries in the world are contaminated with landmines. Several thousand casualties occur every year. Although there are certain types of mines that can be detected from a safe stand-off position with tools, humanitarian demining is still mostly done by hand. As a new approach, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) equipped with a ground penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR) was developed, which is used to detect landmines, cluster munition, grenades, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The measurement system consists of a multicopter, a total station, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar operating from 1 GHz to 4 GHz. The highly accurate localization of the measurement system and the full flexibility of the UAS are used to generate 3D-repeat-pass circular SAR images of buried antipersonnel landmines. In order to demonstrate the functionality of the system, 15 different dummy landmines were buried in a sandbox. The measurement results show the high potential of circular SAR for the detection of minimum metal mines. 11 out of 15 different test objects could be detected unambiguously with cm-level accuracy by examining depth profiles showing the amplitude of the targets response over the processing depth.
Subject headings
[GND]: Landmine | Elektromagnetische Reflexionsmethode | FMCW-Radar | Dauerstrichradar | Radar, Synthetische Apertur | Flugkörper
[LCSH]: Land mines | Ground penetrating radar | Continuous wave radar | Synthetic aperture radar | Land mines; Detection | Vehicles, Remotely piloted
[Free subject headings]: Anti-personnel mine | Unmanned aerial system (UAS)
[DDC subject group]: DDC 350 / Public administration & military science | DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
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CC BY-SA 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-31981

Schartel, Markus et al. (2020): An experimental study on airborne landmine detection using a circular synthetic aperture radar. Open Access Repositorium der Universität Ulm und Technischen Hochschule Ulm. http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-31981
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