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A principally new ultra-wideband radar has been developed for anti-personnel mine detection and classification. The radar emits several waveforms, which correspond to two different pulse durations and two different polarizations of the transmitted pulse. The key advantages of the front end (in comparison with known video impulse GPR systems) are larger relative bandwidth, ability to measure the Polarimetric structure of the scattered field, and very high precision of scattered field measurements. A principally new antenna system design and the ability to perform quasi-simultaneous measurements with two transmit polarizations and in two different frequency bands are the main novelty aspects of the radar. The radar has been tested at the Test facility for landmine detection systems located at TNO-FEL, the Netherlands. It was found that the radar detected all objects in the training part of the sand and the grass lanes with a reasonably low false alarm rate. It was also found that the quality of the measured data is sufficiently high to discriminate detected objects based on their impulse response.
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Yarovoy, A., Schukin, A., Kaploun, I., Ligthart, L. (2007). Multiwaveform Video Impulse Radar for Landmine Detection. In: Sabath, F., Mokole, E.L., Schenk, U., Nitsch, D. (eds) Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37731-5_67
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