Synthetic aperture radar imaging system for landmine detection using a ground penetrating radar on board a unmanned aerial vehicle

MG Fernández, YÁ López, AA Arboleya… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel system to obtain images from the underground based on
ground penetrating radar (GPR). The proposed system is composed by a radar module …

Airborne multi-channel ground penetrating radar for improvised explosive devices and landmine detection

M Garcia-Fernandez, YÁ López, FLH Andrés - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An improved Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system on board an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) is presented in this contribution. The system has been designed for the …

Underground pipeline identification into a non-destructive case study based on ground-penetrating radar imaging

N Iftimie, A Savin, R Steigmann, GS Dobrescu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become one of the key technologies in subsurface
sensing and, in general, in nondestructive testing (NDT), since it is able to detect both …

GPR signal characterization for automated landmine and UXO detection based on machine learning techniques

X Núñez-Nieto, M Solla, P Gómez-Pérez, H Lorenzo - Remote sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Landmine clearance is an ongoing problem that currently affects millions of people around
the world. This study evaluates the effectiveness of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in …

Performance assessment of SVM-based classification techniques for the detection of artificial debondings within pavement structures from stepped-frequency A-scan …

SS Todkar, C Le Bastard, V Baltazart, A Ihamouten… - NDT & E …, 2019 - Elsevier
Owing to traffic and weather conditions, pavement structures may suffer from horizontal and
vertical cracks that shorten the overall lifetime of roadways. In this paper, we focus on the …

Dictionary learning for adaptive GPR landmine classification

F Giovanneschi, KV Mishra… - … on Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) target detection and classification is a challenging task.
Here, we consider online dictionary learning (DL) methods to obtain sparse representations …

A comparative study of GPR reconstruction approaches for landmine detection

MA González-Huici, I Catapano… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper compares the performance of three reconstruction techniques frequently applied
to process ground penetrating radar (GPR) data in the specific context of landmine …

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Surface Landmines Using Optical Imaging

E Vivoli, M Bertini, L Capineri - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a pioneering study in the application of real-time surface landmine
detection using a combination of robotics and deep learning. We introduce a novel system …

RBF kernel based SVM classification for landmine detection and discrimination

K Tbarki, SB Said, R Ksantini… - 2016 International Image …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is used for subsurface exploration across different
applications like landmines detection. It can detect and deliver the response of any buried …

Realistic simulation of GPR for landmine and IED detection including antenna models, soil dispersion and heterogeneity

S Stadler, S Schennen, T Hiller… - Near Surface …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ground‐penetrating radar is an effective tool for detecting landmines and improvised
explosive devices, but its performance is strongly influenced by subsurface properties as …