Multidisciplinary Research in Mine Detection and Neutralization Systems: Missouri-Led Muri
Abstract
The primary purpose of our MURI project was to explore and quantify the basic scientific and mathematical phenomena which can be exploited to detect, locate, and identify landmines, buried or on the earth's surface. Basic research projects was aimed at supporting the Army missions of airborne screening for minefields, forward-looking mine detection from vehicle-mounted systems, and mine detection with hand-held systems. Basic research projects were undertaken in the areas of signal processing and detection algorithms for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), multi-algorithm and multi-sensor fusion, image processing and detection algorithms for lightweight airborne mine detection, concepts for designing and fielding new OPR based mine detection systems, human in the loop analysis of operator pefformance and virtual reality systems for training for hand- held mine detection, detection of EMI from printed circuit boards in land mines, and development of new sensing strategies based on chemical vapor sniffing. Oood improvements in probabilities of detection and false alarm rates have been achieved in the algorithm work. Significant improvement in training effectiveness was demonstrated with virtual reality training. Very sensitive chemical detectors have been evaluated in laboratory settings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 15, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA419934
Entities
People
- Robert J Mitchell
- Sanjeev Agarwal