Remote Sensing for Non‐Technical Survey

Abstract

This chapter describes the research activities of the Royal Military Academy on remote sensing applied to mine action. Remote sensing can be used to detect specific features that could lead to the suspicion of the presence, or absence, of mines. Work on the automatic detection of trenches and craters is presented here. Land cover can be extracted and is quite useful to help mine action. We present here a classification method based on Gabor filters. The relief of a region helps analysts to understand where mines could have been laid. Methods to be a digital terrain model from a digital surface model are explained. The special case of multi-spectral classification is also addressed in this chapter. Discussion about data fusion is also given. Hyper-spectral data are also addressed with a change detection method. Synthetic aperture radar data and its fusion with optical data have been studied. Radar interferometry and polarimetry are also addressed.

Development of the TIRAMISU Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System

“…The greatest contribution and value of these four projects (after SMART) are the integration of most of the tools developed and their implementation in non-technical survey processes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper presents an overview of the development and structure of T-AIDSS as used in non-technical surveys in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2008 and 2016. The system introduces the integration, implementation and on-going development and use of on-the-shelf tools for risk assessment and assistance in reducing SHAs by conducting nontechnical surveys (Larsson et al, 2010;Yvinec et al, 2017), which can be easily adapted to different needs and terrain types. For this reason, accessible, lowerpriced sensors are used from the visible, near, mid and long-wave infrared portions of the spectrum (multispectral and hyper-spectral).…”