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New laser technology speeds up landmine detection process

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2024 - Enough landmines are buried worldwide to circle the Earth twice at the equator, posing a significant challenge for identification and removal, which is both costly and time-consuming. Research
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The technique of using a coherent Doppler laser vibrometer for detection of land mines is not new. Work was done on this going back to the late 1980s. Improvements in the acoustic exciters, lasers, sensors and data processors have made the devices more compact and able to have more beams and sensing channels in a single device to scan faster over a larger area and while on the move.

Dr. James Sabatier started that research at the University of Mississippi in the late '80s and early '90s. Dr. Vyacheslav Aranchuk, who is quoted in the article, became involved in that work sometime in the '90s, I believe. The organization that I worked for in the late '80s to late '90s, the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), funded and collaborated on some of their early work. We were doing R&D on laser vibrometry for various military applications at the time, including mine detection. There was also a group at MIT Lincoln Labs that got involved in laser vibrometry for mine detection sometime in the late '90s or early 2000s.

It is nice to see from the article what progress has been made on using laser vibrometers for the detection of land mines after all of these years since that research was started.
 

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