A Comparative Study of Landmine Detection Techniques

Abstract

Several countries suffer from the existence of millions of buried landmines in their territories. These landmines have indefinite life, and may still cause horrific personal injuries and economic dislocation for decades after a war has finished. Therefore, there is a growing demand by these countries for reliable landmine inspection systems. There are several landmine detection techniques that can be used for this purpose. Each technique is suitable for detection under some conditions depending on the type of the landmine case, the explosive material, and the soil. This paper presents an overview of some of the existing landmine detection techniques. These techniques are briefly described and their merits and drawbacks are highlighted and compared. The purpose of this comparison is to shows the ideal conditions and the challenges for each technique. Furthermore, a comparison between landmine detection techniques from the points of view of cost, complexity, speed, safety, false alarm rate and effect of environmental conditions is presented.

Infrared and terahertz in biomedicine

“…In biomedical applications, IR technologies may serve as one of the additional imaging methods (limited as a primary breast cancer diagnostic [42,46,61]), as compared to other better developed techniques. Moreover, interpretations of thermographic images depend on the specialists, which may lead to errors and uneven results [42].…”

“…However, the CW imaging systems are sufficient for many imaging applications affording a compact, simple, fast and relatively low-cost system. Since it does not require a pump-probe system and the complexity of the optics involved, the optics of CW systems are much simpler and thus their cost can be considerably reduced as compared to pulsed THz systems [46,79], and since it does not require a time delay scan, image formation can take place more quickly [12].…”

Kara mayınlarının tespiti için askeri eğitim simülasyonu tasarımı: Bir araştırma ve ön çalışma

“…Yöntemin, ıslak zeminlerde toprağa iyi nüfuz ettiği belirtilirken aynı zamanda hava ile yer arasındaki yüzeyde sorunlarla karşılaştığı da bildirilmiştir [38].…”

“…IR kameraların verimliliği, hava koşulları, kara mayının boyutu ve içeriği gibi farklı faktörler tarafından etkilenmektedir. Derinlerde gömülü cisimleri tespit etmede çok etkili değildir ve bireysel mayınlardan ziyade mayınlı alanların tespiti için daha uygun bir yöntemdir [38].…”

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