Abstract: The use of handheld ground penetrating radar (GPR) for subsurface object detection often faces challenges coming from the human operator effect, antenna height variation and uneven data sample spacing. This paper investigates the artifact of uneven sample spacing on… Read More
Tag: ground penetrating radar
Aggregation of Choquet integrals in GPR and EMI for handheld platform-based explosive hazard detection
Abstract: Substantial interest resides in identifying sensors, algorithms and fusion theories to detect buried explosive hazards. This is a significant research effort because it impacts the safety and lives of civilians and soldiers alike. Herein, we explore the fusion of… Read More
LBP Features for Hand-Held Ground Penetrating Radar
Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has the ability to detect buried targets with little or no metal content. Achieving superior detection performance with a hand-held GPR can be very challenging due to the quality of the data, inconsistency of target… Read More
Fourier Features for Explosive Hazard Detection using a Wideband Electromagnetic Induction Sensor
Abstract: Sensors which use electromagnetic induction (EMI) to excite a response in conducting bodies have been investigated for the purpose of detecting buried explosives. In particular, wide band EMI sensors which use a relatively low number of operating frequencies have… Read More
Genetic Programming Based Choquet Integral for Multi-Source Fusion
Abstract: While the Choquet integral (ChI) is a powerful parametric nonlinear aggregation function, it has limited scope and is not a universal function generator. Herein, we focus on a class of problems that are outside the scope of a single… Read More
On the use of log-gabor features for subsurface object detection using ground penetrating radar
Abstract: Handheld ground penetrating radar (GPR) enables the detection of subsurface objects under different terrains or over regions with significant amount of metal debris. The challenge for the handheld GPR is to reduce the false alarm rate and limit the… Read More
Anomaly detection of subsurface objects using handheld ground-penetrating radar
Abstract: This paper develops an anomaly detection algorithm for subsurface object detection using the handheld ground penetrating radar. The algorithm is based on the Mahalanobis distance measure with adaptive update of the background statistics. It processes the data sequentially for… Read More
Quantifying the benefit of airborne and ground sensor fusion for target detection
Abstract: In this paper, a study involving the detection of buried objects by fusing airborne Multi-Spectral Imagery (MSI) and ground-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data is investigated. The benefit of using the airborne sensor to cue the GPR, which will… Read More