Numerical and measurement based study of the resonance frequency technique to detect anti-personnel mines

The simulations show that it is useful to explore this technique further towards a practical design. Currently some first experiments seem to support some of the findings from FDTD simulations. We have identified a number of practical problems with the laboratory measurements that need to be tackled. We need to find an optimum polarization state that enhances the presence of buried man-made objects (symmetric). A combination of both imaging and extraction of natural frequencies information needs to be defined. We think that laboratory measurements under controlled conditions is a key issue in the establishment of the practical limitations of the proposed techniques.