Land mine detection using backscattered x-ray radiography

Joseph C. Wehlburg; Jennifer Jacobs; Steve L. Shope; Grant J. Lockwood; Michael M. Selph

doi:10.1117/12.363675

1 October 1999 Land mine detection using backscattered x-ray radiography

Joseph C. Wehlburg, Jennifer Jacobs, Steve L. Shope, Grant J. Lockwood, Michael M. Selph

Proceedings Volume 3769, Penetrating Radiation Systems and Applications; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363675
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The implementation of a backscattered x-ray landmine detection system has been demonstrated in laboratories at both Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the University of Florida (UF). The next step was to evaluate the modality by assembling a system for fieldwork and to evaluate the systems performance with real laboratories. To assess the system's response to a variety of objects, buried simulated plastic and metal antitank landmines, surface simulated plastic antipersonnel landmines, and surface metal fragments were used as targets for the field test. The location of the test site was an unprepared field at SNL. The tests conducted using real landmines were held at UF using various burial depths. The field tests yielded the same levels of discrimination between soil and landmines that had been detected in laboratory experiments. The tests on the real landmines showed that the simulated landmines were a good approximation. The real landmines also contained internal features that would allow not only the detection of the landmines, but also the identification of them.

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Joseph C. Wehlburg, Jennifer Jacobs, Steve L. Shope, Grant J. Lockwood, and Michael M. Selph "Land mine detection using backscattered x-ray radiography", Proc. SPIE 3769, Penetrating Radiation Systems and Applications, (1 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363675

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