Nonlinear seismo-acoustic land mine detection: field test

Dmitri M. Donskoy; Alexander E. Ekimov; Nikolay Sedunov; Mikhail Tsionskiy

doi:10.1117/12.479140

13 August 2002 Nonlinear seismo-acoustic land mine detection: field test

Dmitri M. Donskoy, Alexander E. Ekimov, Nikolay Sedunov, Mikhail Tsionskiy

Proceedings Volume 4742, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479140
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The paper presents results of the field test of the nonlinear seismo-acoustic technique for detection and discrimination of land mines. The tests were conducted in summer 2001 at the U.S. Army's outdoor testing facilities. Plastic antitank mines (M19, VS1.6, VS2.2) and plastic antipersonnel mines (M14, VS50, TS50) were confidently detected at their maximum burial depths in both gravel and dirt lanes. Mine M14 is one of the smallest mines and is very difficult to detect by other techniques. The test proved that the nonlinear seismo-acoustic detection algorithm is very sensitive to AT and AP mines, while completely insensitive to false targets, such as rocks, chunks of metal or wood, thus promising to deliver high probability of detection with low false alarm rate. The results of the tests are in good agreement with the developed physical model of the seismo-acoustic detection.

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Dmitri M. Donskoy, Alexander E. Ekimov, Nikolay Sedunov, and Mikhail Tsionskiy "Nonlinear seismo-acoustic land mine detection: field test", Proc. SPIE 4742, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VII, (13 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479140

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