Landmine Detection Sensor Test Facility
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Our most recent publications online - presented at SPIE, SAGEEP, and published in fastTIMES - June 2005. "Land mines sniffed, tracked" - article on our work in the Albuquerque Tribune - March 2004. NMT Website news item about visit by Dr. Harmon to the test facility - September 4 2003.
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Project goal: the development and field testing of models that predict radar and
thermal signatures of buried low-metal landmines under field conditions that
exhibit spatial and temporal variability.
Soil properties have a large effect on detection sensors for buried landmines. To study the influence of soil variability on landmine detection we have set up a test site. Three boxes were filled with soils of different texture; sand, loam, and clay. Environmental and soil onditions are continuously measured by means of a weather station and buried temperature and dielectric probes. Soil water content can be controlled with a sprinkler system. A pvc tube at 0.5m depth in each box can be used for accurate radar time-depth conversions. In each of the boxes anti-tank and anti-personnel mine simulants are buried. To request more information you can send us an e-mail. |
Support for this research is provided by ARO.
NMT landmine detection sensor test facility
measurement box 3 - clay
landmine layout
12V power, datalogger, probes
Each box: 8 temperature & 8 TDR probes
Filling progress
Test box with mesh bottom cover and PVC pipe
PVC pipe construction
Layout - click for bigger
2x2x1m handheld lanes
Test boxes and operations centre
Weather station