Airborne Multi-Channel Ground Penetrating Radar for Improvised Explosive Devices and Landmine Detection

IEEE Access

Maria Garcia-Fernandez¹  Yuri Alvarez Lopez²  Fernando Las-Heras Andres³ 

[1] Departamento de Ingenier&x00ED;a El&x00E9;ctrica, Área de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo, Gij&x00F3;

关键词: Ground penetrating radar (GPR);    subsurface sensing and imaging;    synthetic aperture radar (SAR);    landmine detection;    unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);    drones;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3022624

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 detection and imaging of buried targets and, in particular, landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Resting on the hardware and architecture of a previous aerial platform, in the proposed system the scanning area is increased and the detection capabilities are improved. These improvements are achieved by employing two receiving antennas and new processing techniques that increase the Signal-to-Clutter Ratio of the GPR images. Besides, parameters affecting the GPR image resolution, such as the flight speed and the amount of measurements that can be processed together using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques, are also studied. The developed system exhibits several advantages: safety and faster scanning speeds, together with the capability to detect both metallic and non-metallic targets, as shown in the examples presented in this contribution.

【 授权许可】

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