@article{ref1,
title="Implementation of and experimentation with ground-penetrating radar for real-time automatic detection of buried improvised explosive devices",
journal="Sensors (Basel)",
year="2022",
author="Dentri, Sitthichai and Athikulwongse, Krit and Kaemarungsi, Kamol and Boonpoonga, Akkarat and Srimuk, Pachara",
volume="22",
number="22",
pages="e8710-e8710",
abstract="This paper proposes the implementation of and experimentation with GPR for real-time automatic detection of buried IEDs. GPR, consisting of hardware and software, was implemented. A UWB antenna was designed and implemented, particularly for the operation of the GPR. The experiments were conducted in order to demonstrate the real-time automatic detection of buried IEDs using GPR with an R-CNN algorithm. In the experiments, the GPR was mounted on a pickup truck and a maintenance train in order to find the IEDs buried under a road and a railway, respectively. B-scan images were collected using the implemented GPR. R-CNN-based detection for the hyperbolic pattern, which indicates the buried IED, was performed along with pre-processing, for example, using zero offset removal, and background removal and filtering. Experimental results in terms of detecting the hyperbolic pattern in B-scan images were shown and verified that the proposed GPR system is superior to the conventional one using region analysis processing-based detection. <br><br>RESULTS also showed that pre-processing is required in order to improve and/or clean the hyperbolic pattern before detection. The GPR can automatically detect IEDs buried under roads and railways in real time by detecting the hyperbolic pattern appearing in the collected B-scan image.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1424-8220",
doi="10.3390/s22228710",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22228710"
}