Characterizing mine detector performance over difficult soils

R. C. Bailey; G. F. West

doi:10.1117/12.665858

16 May 2006 Characterizing mine detector performance over difficult soils

R. C. Bailey, G. F. West

Proceedings Volume 6217, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets XI; 62170P (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665858
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

A variety of metal detectors are available for the detection of buried metallic targets in general and for humanitarian demining in particular. No one detector is optimal in all environments: variations in soil conductivity, and more importantly, frequency dependent soil magnetic susceptibility can favor one design over another. The use of computer modeling for assessing different designs is straightforward in principle, at least to first order, but still difficult in practice. The Geophysics Lab of the University of Toronto is attempting to address this problem in two ways. The first is by assembling the required computational algorithms to do this into a single simulation code with a straightforward GUI, intended to be public domain as a MATLAB code. The second, the subject of a companion paper in this conference, is by making measurements of the electromagnetic properties of difficult soils, and finding semi-analytic representations of these responses suitable for modeling purposes. The final version of the code, when completed, is to handle single or multiple transmitter and receiver coils of circular or polygonal shape, general transmitter current waveforms, arbitrary transmitter orientations and survey paths, small targets with frequency-dependent anisotropic responses (permitting both magnetic and inductive responses to be calculated), embedded in multi-layered half spaces with both conductivity and frequency-dependent susceptibility (so-called "difficult soils"). The current state of the simulation code and examples of its use will be described in this paper.

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R. C. Bailey and G. F. West "Characterizing mine detector performance over difficult soils", Proc. SPIE 6217, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets XI, 62170P (16 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665858

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