Soil type

Materials tested

Test height

Operational speed or frequency

Performance of work

References

Soil

VS50 Anti personnel mine

Source on the ground surface

400 MHz

10 cm

[11]

Soil

Anti tank mine

(containing both high and low metal content)

Height of the source is 5 cm

200 MHz - 7 GHz

2.5 - 15.2 cm

(success %87.5)

[1]

Soil

Mine resembling targets

Source is on the ground surface

300 MHz

5 cm (false alarm ratio in an area with a radius of 45 cm is 6.9%)

[15]

Soil with stone and clay covered by grass

Anti tank mine

Ø20 cm h = 310 cm

Anti personnel (metallic)

Ø8 cm h = 15 cm

Source on the ground surface

0.7 - 2.7 GHz

20 cm

[17]

Dry sand

Ø12 cm 450 Hp power piston,

1.25 literplastic water filled cup

1.2 m

1 - 3 GHz

Image taken

2 cm

No image could be taken

[18]

Soil (εr = 6)

M14 plastic anti personnel mine

0.5 - 2 cm

800 - 3.5 MHz

15 cm

[19]

Soil

Metallic and plastic anti personnel mine

15 cm above the ground

1300 MHz

Several cm in a depth from the surface

[20]

Dry, wet and watery soil

TS-50 and VS-50

Ø8 cm h = 3.2 cm

Source on the ground surface

4 GHz

2 cm

[21]

Clay soil (εr = 8)

TS-50 plastic anti personnel mine

Very close to the surface

3 GHz

2 cm

[22]

Clay soil (εr = 6.2)

Plastic anti personnel mine

28 cm above the ground

1 - 3 GHz

8.5 cm

[23]

Sand

Anti personnel mine, stone, brick and metallic sphere

Source is at the surface

1 GHz

1.3, 5, 10 cm

[24]

Sand

Metal cylindir,

Water filled plastic, rubber, metallic sphere Ø5 cm h = 1 cm

Very close to the surface

3 MHz - 2.4 GHz

2 cm

[25]

Soil

Anti personnel mine

Ø8 cm

Very close to the surface

1 GHz

15 cm

[12]

Sand (εr = 2.5)

Metallic sphere, aluminium folio covered sphere Ø7.5 cm

11.5 cm above the ground

100 MHz - 5 GHz

5 cm

[27]

Sand, loam

TNT and rock wit a shape of round, ellipsoid and rectangle

2.5 cm above the ground

500 MHz - 5 GHz

2.5-5-10 cm

[28]

Sand

PMN2 land mine

12 cm above the ground

0.5 - 5 GHz

5 cm

[29]

Natural stone chip, sinter, sand, soil

Steel sphere Ø5 cm

10 cm above the ground

0.5 MHz - 6 GHz

10 - 15.5 cm

[30]

Clay soil

r = 3.5)

TS-50 anti personnel mine

Very close to the surface

1 - 5 GHz

2.5 cm

[31]

Soil, dry sand containing water

NR26 anti tank mine, PMN anti personnel mine

4 m above the ground

1 GHz

20 cm

[34]

Soil

Anti personnel mine (high and low metal)

Anti tank mine (high and low metal content)

Close to the surface

0.2 - 7 GHz

2.5-5-7.6-10-12.7 cm

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