Wavelet packets for GPR detection of non-metallic anti-personnel land mines based on higher-order-statistic

Abstract

An algorithm is described for the detection of non-metallic anti-personnel (AP) land mines by using ground penetrating radar (GPR). The algorithm combines two powerful tools: the wavelet packet analysis and higher-order-statistics (HOS). The use of both techniques makes detection of shallowly anti-personnel land mines objects possible which obscured by the return from air-soil interface. The experimental data sources include 1GHz pulse GPR data, and 1GHz to 4GHz stepped-frequency GPR data, from laboratory measurements.