Research of Landmine Detection Using Terahertz Technology

Abstract:

The detection of landmines has become a hard task to deal with because of the diversity of landmines and the complexity of minefield. The development of terahertz technologies has provided a feasible way to detect the buried landmines. Landmines’ shell is usually made of ceramics, plastics, even wood and so on, which terahertz wave could penetrate them easily. The explosives are the major part of landmines. Many types of explosives have the characteristic spectrum in terahertz range, so it would be an effective method to detect landmines by measuring the spectrum of explosives with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 644-650)
• Pages: 1313-1316
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.644-650.1313
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Qing Miao, Gao Wang*, Yang Jun Li
• Keywords: Fingerprint Spectrum, Terahertz, Time-Domain Spectroscopy

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