Statistical properties of antipersonnel mine signatures in SAR-processed GPR images

Statistical properties of the radar images of landmines and mine-free area have been investigated. The histograms of the 2D windowed energy projection maps are shown to be distiiguishable from mines and for subsurface clutter even for cases where the latte is strong. This allows development statistical bastd detector, which performance surpasses the on of simpler threshold detectors.