@inproceedings{07877448adeb42379a270898ed77f27d,
title = "Validation of a UAV-mounted GPR system for landmine and IED detection under operational conditions",
abstract = "In this contribution, the performance of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system mounted on board an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to detect buried landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) is analyzed. Radar measurements are coherently combined using a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) algorithm complemented with several clutter mitigation techniques. As a result, 3D high-resolution radar images of the subsurface with enhanced signal-to-clutter-ratio are retrieved. Several prototypes and different GPR architectures have been extensively tested in realistic scenarios, where numerous metallic and non-metallic targets (landmines and IEDs) have been buried under different conditions (dry and wet fields, dirt roads, sloped terrains).",
author = "M. Garcia-Fernandez and G. Alvarez-Narciandi and Y. Alvarez-Lopez and {Las Heras}, F.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1117/12.2622925",
language = "English",
volume = "12116",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SPIE: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XXIII",
address = "United States",
}