Demining and Landmine Detection with Greatcore GDM1

Mine detection with new level of safety, accuracy and speed:

- Landmines are detected from a safe distance.
- New low level of personnel injury risk.
- The devices are light and small enough to be hand carried.
- Meets the United Nations standards for humanitarian demining.
- Has new low level of false positives, it is more accurate and detection work are completed more quickly.

Compare the effectiveness and risk profile of this and other landmine detection methods available.

Greacore GDM1 Radar-based Detection of Landmines and IEDs

This radar device is particularly effective in detecting landmines in agricultural land where the mines are of the anti-personnel (AP) types. The spread of the land and challenging terrain normally pose challenges to the conventional methods but not for a system based on the Greatcore GDM1 system. Moreover the thoroughess, accuracy and speed achieved from our system has proven unmatched.

can be applied to the three critical problems that hinder the ongoing operations in the Middle East: IEDs and AP landmines buried under road surfaces, embedded inside building walls and hidden within otherwise innocuous objects that litter the roadsides.

Results of mine imaging tests

Two mines were placed on the earth 11’ in front of the radar in order to see whether a
typical plastic anti-personnel mine would have a significant detection level. One of the
mines (the green one) was filled with silicone explosive stimulant and the other was
empty. Here are the two radar images that were generated:

Radar detail

The radar device is physically compact and light as it is intended for use by an individual.

The system is based on an eighteen element phased array, nine transmit and nine receive elements. These antennae may be triggered and the receive antenna digitized in any order to synthesize a beam.

A next-generation radar, has recently been developed that contains 34 antennas, 17 transmit and 17 receive, that operate at 3-5 GHz. This higher operating frequency will allow higher cross range resolution and the higher power transmitters and the array gain of the larger receive array will permit operation at greater ranges.

Compare the effectiveness and risk profile of this and other landmine detection methods available.

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