Advances in EMI and GPR algorithms in discrimination mode processing for handheld landmine detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 874-882

  Stanley, Joe ^a   Ho, K C ^b   Gader, P ^c   Wilson, J ^c   Devaney, J ^b  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic induction; Ground penetrating radar; Land mine detection; Metal detector

Indexed keywords

ALARM RATES; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; LAND MINE DETECTION; METAL CONTENT;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INDUCTANCE; METAL DETECTORS; PROBABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044254676     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544328     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. L. Collins, P. Gao and L. Carin, "An improved Bayesian decision theoretic approach for land mine detection," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 811-819, 1999.
2. R. J. Stanley, P. Gader, D. Ho, "Feature and decision level sensor fusion of electromagnetic induction and ground penetrating radar sensors for landmine detection with hand-held units," Information Fusion, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 215-223, 2002.
3. R. J. Stanley, S. Somanchi, P. D. Gader, "Impact of weighted density distribution function features on landmine detection using hand-held units," in Proceedings of SPIE - Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VII, Vol. 4742, pp. 892-902, Orlando, FL, 2002.
4. R. J. Stanley, N. Thera-Umpon, P. Gader, S. Somanchi, D. Ho, "Detecting landmines using weighted density distribution function features," in Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition X, Proceedings of SPIE X, Vol. 4380, pp. 135-141, Orlando, FL, 2001.
5. P. Gao, S. Tantum and L. Collins, "Single sensor processing and sensor fusion of GPR and EMI data for land mine detection," in Proceedings of SPIE, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IV, Orlando, FL, Apr. 1999, pp. 1139-1148.
6. L. Collins, P. Gao, "Hypothesis testing for landmine detection with EMI images," in Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Piscataway, NJ, 1998, Vol. 1, pp. 237-240.
7. L. Collins, V. George, T. W. Altshuler, L. W. Nolte and L. Carin, "Improved decision-theoretic approach to the optimum detection of mines," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham WA, 1997, Vol. 3079, pp. 716-723.
8. P. Gao, S. Tantum, L. Collins, D. Weaver, D, J. Moulton, L. Makowsky and D. Reidy, "Statistical signal processing techniques for the detection of low-metal landmines using EMI and GPR sensors", in Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1999, Vol. 5, pp. 2465-2467.
9. P. Gao, L. Collins, P. M. Garber, N. Geng and L. Carin, "Classification of landmine-like metal objects using wideband electromagnetic induction," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, May 2000, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1352-1361.
10. J. Piper and E. Granum, "On fully automatic feature measurement for banded chromosome classification," Cytometry, 1989, Vol. 10, p. 242-255.
11. I. Daubechies, Ten lectures on wavelets. CBMS, SIAM, 1994, Vol. 61, pp. 194-202.
12. K. C. Ho and P. D. Gader, "A linear prediction land mine detector algorithm for hand held ground penetrating radar," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1374-1384, June 2002.