title: An experimental study on antipersonnel landmine detection using acoustic-to-seismic coupling.
abstract: An acoustic-to-seismic system to detect buried antipersonnel mines exploits airborne acoustic waves penetrating the surface of the ground. Acoustic waves radiating from a sound source above the ground excite Biot type I and II compressional waves in the porous soil. The type I wave and type II waves refract toward the normal and cause air and soil particle motion. If a landmine is buried below the surface of the insonified area, these waves are scattered or reflected by the target, resulting in distinct changes to the acoustically coupled ground motion. A scanning laser Doppler vibrometer measures the motion of the ground surface. In the past, this technique has been employed with remarkable success in locating antitank mines during blind field tests [Sabatier and Xiang, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 39, 1146-1154 (2001)]. The humanitarian demining mission requires an ability to locate antipersonnel mines, requiring a surmounting of additional challenges due to a plethora of shapes and smaller sizes. This paper describes an experimental study on the methods used to locate antipersonnel landmines in recent field measurements.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, 1 Coliseum Drive, University, Mississippi 38677, USA. nxiang@olemiss.edu
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sabatier