Comparison of vehicle-mounted forward-looking polarimetric infrared and downward-looking infrared sensors for landmine detection
conference paper
This paper gives a comparison of two vehicle-mounted infrared systems for landmine detection. The first system is a down-ward looking standard infrared camera using processing methods developed within the EU project LOTUS. The second system is using a forward-looking polarimetric infrared camera. Feature-based classification is used for this system. With these systems data have been acquired simultaneously of different test lanes from a moving platform. The performance of each system is evaluated using a leave-one-out method. On the training set the polarimetric infrared system performs better especially for low false alarm rates. On the independent evaluation set the differences are much smaller. On the ferruginous soil test lane the down-ward looking system performs better at certain points whereas on the grass test lane the forward-looking system performs better at certain points.
TNO Identifier
95571
Source title
Detection and remediation technologies for mines and minelike targets VIII, 21-25 April 2003, Orlando, FL, USA
Editor(s)
Harmon, R.S.
Holloway Jr., J.H.
Broach, J.T.
Holloway Jr., J.H.
Broach, J.T.
Pages
517-526