Radar technology for humanitarian demining and its application

2008 Fiscal Year Self-evaluation Report

• Project/Area Number: 18106008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Measurement engineering
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: 佐藤 源之 Tohoku University, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (40178778)
• Project Period (FY): 2006 – 2010
• Keywords: 人道的地雷除去 / GPR / デュアルセンサ / レーダポーラリメトリ

Research Abstract

人道的地雷除去を目的とし、地中レーダ(GPR)と金属探知機を組合せた手動型センサALISを開発した。クロアチアとカンボジアで長期評価試験を実施し現地展開が目前である。本センサは3次元可視化信号処理機能を具備する世界で唯一のハンドヘルド型地雷センサである。本技術を元にレーダポーラリメトリなど新しい技術展開をめざしている。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 地中レーダ(GPR) 技術と人道的地雷検知への応用 (2008)
  • Author(s): 佐藤 源之
  • Journal Title: CQ 出版社RF ワールド 4 Pages: 54-63
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 人道的地雷除去のための地雷検知技術の開発 (2008)
  • Author(s): 佐藤 源之
  • Journal Title: 渋沢栄一記念財団青淵 714 Pages: 10-12
• [Journal Article] Hand-held dual-sensor ALIS and its evaluation tests (2008)
  • Author(s): Motoyuki Sato, Kazunori Takahashi
  • Journal Title: Proc. Defense and Security Symposium 6953 Pages: 695311/1-12
• [Journal Article] A Novel Directional Borehole Radar System using Optical Electric Field Sensors (2007)
  • Author(s): Motoyuki Sato, Takuya Takayama
  • Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45 (8) Pages: 2529-2535
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Investigation of Time-Frequency Features for GPR Landmine Discrimination (2007)
  • Author(s): Timofey Grigorievich Savelyev, Luc van Kempen, Hichem Sahli, Juergen Sachs, Motoyuki Sato
  • Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45 (1) Pages: 118-129
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] レーダ技術と地雷検知・除去そして豊かな環境を守るために (2006)
  • Author(s): 佐藤 源之
  • Journal Title: 東北大学 まなびの杜 35 Pages: 4-5
• [Journal Article] 地中レーダシステムの開発と地雷検知への応用 (2006)
  • Author(s): 佐藤 源之
  • Journal Title: 検査技術 11 (6) Pages: 40-48
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Dual Sensor ALIS for Humanitarian Demining and its Evaluation Test in Mine Fields in Croatia (2008)
  • Author(s): Motoyuki Sato
  • Organizer: IGRASS2008
  • Place of Presentation: USA
  • Year and Date: 2008-07-06
• [Presentation] Dual sensor for Humanitarian demining sensor ALIS and its evaluation in mine affected courtiers (2008)
  • Author(s): Motoyuki Sato
  • Organizer: Proc. 12^<th> Int. Conf. on GPR 2008
  • Place of Presentation: England
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-16
• [Presentation] ω-k Filter Design to Suppress Direct Wave for Bistatic Radar. Proc (2008)
  • Author(s): Naoki HAYASHI, Motoyuki SATO
  • Organizer: 12th Int. Conf. on GPR 2008
  • Place of Presentation: England
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-16
• [Presentation] 3D subsurface SAR for humanitarian demining. Proc. (2008)
  • Author(s): Motoyuki Sato, Xuan Feng, and Kazunori Takahashi
  • Organizer: European SAR Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-03
• [Presentation] Bistatic 3D subsurface radar imaging (2008)
  • Author(s): Naoki Hayashi, Motoyuki Sato
  • Organizer: Proc., European SAR Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-03
• [Presentation] Calibration of Ground-Based SAR by using ALOS/PALSAR and a retrieval of soil moisture (2008)
  • Author(s): Manabu Watanabe, Motoyuki Sato, Masayoshi Matsumoto
  • Organizer: Proc., European SAR Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-03
• [Presentation] Cross-calibration of Ground-Based SAR by using ALOS/PALSAR and a retrieval of soil moisture (2008)
  • Author(s): Manabu Watanabe, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Motoyuki Sato
  • Organizer: Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-03
• [Presentation] 人道的地雷除去のためのデュアルセンサALIS とクロアチアでの実用化試験 (2008)
  • Author(s): 佐藤源之
  • Organizer: 物理探査学会第118 回学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2008-05-13
• [Presentation] Inversion Approaches in Cross-Hole Borehole Radar, Geophysical Research Abstracts (2008)
  • Author(s): M. Sato , K. Takahashi, and H. Zhou
  • Organizer: EGU General Assembly
  • Place of Presentation: Austria
  • Year and Date: 2008-04-14
• [Presentation] Development and Evaluation of Directional Borehole Radar with Passive Receiver Units (2008)
  • Author(s): M. Sato, and T. Takayama
  • Organizer: EGU GeneralAssembly
  • Place of Presentation: Austria
  • Year and Date: 2008-04-14
• [Remarks] 2008年4月18日(北海道新聞)地雷発見率2倍に クロアチアで初公開
• [Remarks] 2007年12月25日(北海道新聞)今日の話題「ソンさんの願い」
• [Remarks] 2007年12月20日(読売新聞・宮城版) 東北大百年最前線に立つ地雷除去
• [Remarks] 2007年12月14日(産経新聞)やばいぞ 日本再生への処方箋「うんと早く地雷探せる」
• [Remarks] 2007年9月11日(共同通信配信・高知新聞他)「ひと」住民のため、少しでも役に立ちたい
• [Remarks] 2007年7月13日(共同通信配信・日経夕刊、東京新聞他)地中の地雷15秒で可視化 他3件
• [Remarks] 2007年6月19日(NHK総合)てれまさむね新しい地雷探知機他(仙台放送1件)
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