GPR Phase-Based Techniques for Profiling Rough Surfaces and Detecting Small, Low-Contrast Landmines Under Flat Ground

We present a new technique whereby phase variation signatures are used to profile two-dimensional (2-D) rough surfaces and to discern shallowly buried, small, low-contrast landmines under a flat ground. The method has been tested using data measured over a composite surface containing two rough dielectric surface patches, and over a flat ground under which small, low-contrast antipersonnel landmines are shallowly buried. The results show that the phase-based technique is capable of profiling rough surfaces and of detecting small, low-contrast landmines with different internal structures buried underneath a flat ground.