Put simply, the global landmine problem is massive. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is just one engineering solution currently being investigated. A polynomial amplitude-polynomial phase model is fitted to GPR returns. It is observed that the second order phase coefficient shows deviations from background-only levels when a buried target is present. A bootstrap-based detection scheme is proposed that tests for this change. The technique is applied to real GPR data, with encouraging results
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Statistical Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on
Date of Conference: 2001