Results from field tests of a passive microwave radiometer mine detector

Giovanni De Amici; Alejandro Valles; Larry Yujiri; Jack Huynh; Kelly D. Sherbondy

doi:10.1117/12.396253

22 August 2000 Results from field tests of a passive microwave radiometer mine detector

Giovanni De Amici, Alejandro Valles, Larry Yujiri, Jack Huynh, Kelly D. Sherbondy

Proceedings Volume 4038, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396253
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Objects hidden under a lossy medium, like soil, can be detected when the boundary between the object and the medium acts as a reflector for incoming microwave radiation. Under typical soil conditions, the maximum depth at which the object can be detected is a few wavelengths. It is therefore advantageous to employ low-frequency receivers. Under a contract from the US Army CECOM-NVESD, TRW has designed and built the Microwave Radiometer Mine Detector; a hand-held man-portable unit, which employs a cold radiometric sky as the illuminating source. The breadboard unit works at 5 Ghz using a direct RF-gain, total-power radiometer. The unit was field-tested at the Army facility at Fort AP Hill during August of 1999. The test yielded a probability of detection of 45 percent and a false alarm rate of 0.11/m².

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Giovanni De Amici, Alejandro Valles, Larry Yujiri, Jack Huynh, and Kelly D. Sherbondy "Results from field tests of a passive microwave radiometer mine detector", Proc. SPIE 4038, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V, (22 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396253

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