Development of a hand-held GPR MD sensor system (ALIS)

Motoyuki Sato; Jun Fujiwara; Xuan Feng; Zheng-Shu Zhou; Takao Kobayashi

doi:10.1117/12.603213

10 June 2005 Development of a hand-held GPR MD sensor system (ALIS)

Motoyuki Sato, Jun Fujiwara, Xuan Feng, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Takao Kobayashi

Proceedings Volume 5794, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets X; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603213
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System), which is a novel landmine detection sensor system combined with a metal detector and GPR, was developed. This is a hand-held equipment, which has a sensor position tracking system, and can visualize the sensor output in real time on a head-mounted PC display. In order to achieve the sensor tracking system, ALIS needs only one CCD camera attached on the sensor handle. The new hand-held system ALIS is a very compact and do not require any additional sensor for sensor position tracking. The acquired signal from the metal detector and GPR is displayed on the PC display on real time, and the sensor trace can be checked by the operator. At the same time, the operator can visually recognize the signal on the same display. The CCD captured image is superimposed with the GPR and metal detector signal, therefore the detection and identification of buried targets is quite easy and reliable. Field evaluation test of ALIS was conducted in Afghanistan, and we demonstrated that it can detect buried antipersonnel landmines, and can also discriminate metal fragments from landmines.

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Motoyuki Sato, Jun Fujiwara, Xuan Feng, Zheng-Shu Zhou, and Takao Kobayashi "Development of a hand-held GPR MD sensor system (ALIS)", Proc. SPIE 5794, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets X, (10 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603213

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