Ground penetrating radars (GPRs) for mine detection can profit from the many advantages that compressed sensing can offer through random subsampling in terms of hardware simplification, reduced data volume and measurement time, or imagery simplification. An intrinsic antenna-ground model is used, canceling the undesired reverberation effects and the very strong reflection from the air-soil interface, producing higher detection rates, or even unmasking shallowly buried mines. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations on real GPR measurements (800-2200 MHz) show an increase in the probability of detection, yielding globally promising exploitable results, whenever the principal component analysis technique is used a as preconditioner, as well as providing lower random subsampling bounds for frequency and spatial measurements (cross range), whether applied individually or combined.
Cristofani, E, Becquaert, M, Lambot, S, Vandewal, M, Stiens, J & Deligiannis, N 2018, 'Random Subsampling and Data Preconditioning for Ground Penetrating Radars', IEEE Access , vol. 6, no. 04506, pp. 26866-26880. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2831905
Cristofani, E., Becquaert, M., Lambot, S., Vandewal, M., Stiens, J., & Deligiannis, N. (2018). Random Subsampling and Data Preconditioning for Ground Penetrating Radars. IEEE Access , 6(04506), 26866-26880. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2831905
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title = "Random Subsampling and Data Preconditioning for Ground Penetrating Radars",
abstract = "Ground penetrating radars (GPRs) for mine detection can profit from the many advantages that compressed sensing can offer through random subsampling in terms of hardware simplification, reduced data volume and measurement time, or imagery simplification. An intrinsic antenna-ground model is used, canceling the undesired reverberation effects and the very strong reflection from the air-soil interface, producing higher detection rates, or even unmasking shallowly buried mines. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations on real GPR measurements (800-2200 MHz) show an increase in the probability of detection, yielding globally promising exploitable results, whenever the principal component analysis technique is used a as preconditioner, as well as providing lower random subsampling bounds for frequency and spatial measurements (cross range), whether applied individually or combined.",
keywords = "Basis pursuit denoising, compressed sensing, ground penetrating radar, landmines, principal component analysis, stepped-frequency continuous-wave, synthetic aperture radar",
author = "Edison Cristofani and Mathias Becquaert and S{\'e}bastien Lambot and Marijke Vandewal and Johan Stiens and Nikolaos Deligiannis",
year = "2018",
month = may,
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doi = "10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2831905",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
pages = "26866--26880",
journal = "IEEE Access ",
issn = "2169-3536",
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