Depth fusion for anti-personnel landmine detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1071-1081

  Schavemaker, John G M ^a   Den Breejen, Eric ^a   Cremer, Frank ^a   Schutte, Klamer ^a   Benoist, Koen W ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depth fusion; GPR; Landmine detection; MD; Sensor fusion; TIR

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ANTI-PERSONNEL (AP) LANDMINES; LANDMINE DETECTION;

MINING ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035758921     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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