| The broad objective of this research was to develop new and innovative signal processing techniques to improve the detectability of buried anti-personnel land mines (APL's) using ground penetrating radar (GPR). Using contemporary techniques, common non-lethal objects such as rocks and roots often appear as lethal targets, thus considerably slowing-down the discrimination/identification process. The present research has resulted in the incorporation of very promising wavelet-based algorithms for GPR signal processing which have demonstrated the ability to suppress false targets while simultaneously enhancing shape features of the APL. These results were obtained with realistic targets using real, measured data rather than computer simulations. |
