Ali Gharamohammadi - Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Yaser Norouzi - Department of Electrical Engineering, Assistance prof. of Electrical Eng, Amir kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

In this paper, the purpose is the detection of a landmine in an environment using the scattering parameter. The Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) measures the scattering parameter. The scattering parameter is taken from a simple environment in which a landmine exists alone as a reference signal. Signals taken from the complex environment are compared with the reference signal. In fact, the presence of a landmine influences the scattering parameter. The similarity between measured signal and reference signal determines the presence of the landmine. The correlation function calculates similarity. This method is very applicable because the scattering parameter is unique.

Ground penetrating RADAR, landmine detection, scattering parameter