Radio frequency interference suppression for landmine detection by quadrupole resonance

DOI10.1155/ASP/2006/29890MaRDI QIDQ871521zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Guoqing Liu, Yi Jiang, Hong Xiong, Jian Li, Geoffrey A. Barrall

Publication date 19 March 2007

Published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/29890

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13)

Review text

Summary: The quadrupole resonance (QR) technology can be used as a confirming sensor for buried plastic landmine detection by detecting the explosives within the mine. We focus herein on the detection of TNT mines via the QR sensor. Since the frequency of the QR signal is located within the AM radio frequency band, the QR signal can be corrupted by strong radio frequency interferences (RFIs). Hence to detect the very weak QR signal, RFI mitigation is essential. Reference antennas, which receive RFIs only, can be used together with the main antenna, which receives both the QR signal and the RFIs, for RFI mitigation. The RFIs are usually colored both spatially and temporally, and hence exploiting only the spatial diversity of the antenna array may not give the best performance. We exploit herein both the spatial and temporal correlations of the RFIs to improve the TNT detection performance.

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