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This chapter describes the usage of polarization features of visible light for automatic landmine detection. The Section 5.2 gives an introduction to landmine detection and the usage of camera systems. In Section 5.3 detection concepts and methods that use polarization features are described. Section 5.4 describes how these detection concepts have been tested and evaluated. The results of these tests are given in Section 5.5. Conclusions from these results are given in Section 5.6.
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de Jong, W., Schavemaker, J. (2007). Using Polarization Features of Visible Light for Automatic Landmine Detection. In: Sadjadi, F., Javidi, B. (eds) Physics of Automatic Target Recognition. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36943-3_5
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