Simultaneous buried object detection and imaging technique utilizing fuzzy weighted background calculation and target energy moments on ground penetrating radar data

In this article, a simultaneous buried object detection and imaging method is proposed for time domain ground penetrating radar (GPR) data. Fuzzy weighted background removal is applied to the data through a sliding window and then target energy functions are obtained by means of convolution summations of consecutive A-scan signals in an appropriate manner. An auxiliary detection function is proposed as an emphasized detection test statistic and then an automatic detection warning signal creation method is devised. The proposed method has been tested over a set of small-sized surrogate anti-personnel (AP) mines which are not easily detectable and medium-sized surrogate AP and Anti-tank mines. The results are promising as nearly full detection performance. Zero false alarm rate is achieved in this dataset without remarkable corruption in estimated target GPR images. Moreover, it is observed that the noise immunity of the proposed method is highly satisfactory in terms of detection probability.