Whole-field laser vibrometer for buried land mine detection

Amit K. Lal; Cecil F. Hess; Hansheng Zhang; Ernesto Hurtado; Vyacheslav Aranchuk; Vladimir B. Markov; William T. Mayo Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.479135

13 August 2002 Whole-field laser vibrometer for buried land mine detection

Amit K. Lal, Cecil F. Hess, Hansheng Zhang, Ernesto Hurtado, Vyacheslav Aranchuk, Vladimir B. Markov, William T. Mayo Jr.

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Proceedings Volume 4742, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479135
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper discusses the development and performance of a multi-beam laser Doppler vibrometer specifically designed to locate buried landmines with a laser-acoustic technique. The device aims at increasing the speed of landmine detection with this technique by at least one order of magnitude. The present system is capable of simultaneously probing sixteen positions on the ground over a span of one meter, and of measuring the ground velocity at each of these positions with a velocity resolution of about 1 micrometers /s. This architecture could also be scaled to a larger number of beams or into two dimensions. The present system uses a low (100 kHz) carrier frequency, which enables digital signal processing in a simple architecture. This paper also discusses a numerical model to simulate and predict the performance of the multi-beam vibrometer. In particular, the model attempts to address issues associated with speckle dropout, signal/noise, and maximum scanning velocity.

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Amit K. Lal, Cecil F. Hess, Hansheng Zhang, Ernesto Hurtado, Vyacheslav Aranchuk, Vladimir B. Markov, and William T. Mayo Jr. "Whole-field laser vibrometer for buried land mine detection", Proc. SPIE 4742, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VII, (13 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479135

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