Laser Doppler vibrometer-based acoustic landmine detection using the fast M-sequence transform

Acoustic landmine detection using a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) has demonstrated success in recent field tests. However, low detector signals and speckle noise are still challenging problems in the LDV-based acoustic-to-seismic detection of buried landmines. This letter describes the use of binary maximum-length sequences as the acoustic excitation for achieving high SNRs of scanning results. Some relevant issues associated with the detection system design and experimental field results are discussed.