Detection of antipersonnel mines by using the factorization method on multistatic ground-penetrating radar measurements

The factorization method (FM) has been applied to measurement data from a multistatic ground-penetrating radar operating in close proximity to the ground, which was used in a measurement campaign on the Joint Research Centre mine test lane in Ispra, Italy. This paper is targeted toward a future hand-held demining system. The according space limits restrict an independent positioning of transmit and receive antennas. Hence, very small multistatic datasets are obtained, representing a difficult case for the reconstruction with the FM. Index Terms--Angular diversity, antipersonnel mine, discrete complex image method (DCIM), factorization method (FM), Green's function, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), linear sampling method, multistatic radar, stratified media.