Fixed-depth and variable-depth landmine detection using sequential probability ratio test

Mark P. Kolba; Ismail I. Jouny

doi:10.1117/12.486806

11 September 2003 Fixed-depth and variable-depth landmine detection using sequential probability ratio test

Mark P. Kolba, Ismail I. Jouny

Proceedings Volume 5089, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VIII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486806
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper we use a sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) on ground penetrating radar (GPR) data to detect buried antipersonnel land mines and to reject clutter objects. Detection is performed for both fixed-depth and variable-depth cases. We use high-dimensional analysis of variance (HANOVA) to window the GPR data before SPRT analysis. Our algorithm uses a library of mine and clutter objects and performs a series of SPRTs using the object library for each unknown image. We also evaluate the performance of our fixed-depth and variable-depth detection algorithms versus noise and SPRT threshold value.

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Mark P. Kolba and Ismail I. Jouny "Fixed-depth and variable-depth landmine detection using sequential probability ratio test", Proc. SPIE 5089, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VIII, (11 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486806

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