The joint multi-sensor mine-signatures project: an opportunity for testing data fusion algorithms!

The Multi-sensor Mine-signatures (MsMs) project is a major campaign to collect calibrated and well- documented data, suitable for use by workers developing advanced multi-sensor algorithms for antipersonnel mine detection. The data, together with a full description of the site layout and measurement protocols, are publicly avail- able via the website http://demining.jrc. itlmsms. Measurements are made on a test lane consisting of 7 plots of different soils, each 6m by 6m, populated with sur- rogate mines, calibration objects, simulated clutter and po- sition markers. There are 48 targets in each plot, conjgured identically for all plots. Many diferent sensors have been used to collect the data including pulsed and continuous wave metal detec- tors, ground penetrating radars, a microwave radiometer; thermal infrared camera's, a magnetometer; and a scanning laser doppler vibrometel: The database is in an ongoing process of being updated and it is also being reformatted to make it more uniform and user-fnendly. The test site remains essentially unchanged, apart from some equipment upgrades, and is still available for further data collection. In particular, the targets have not been moved, so as to provide stable surrounding soil conditions representative of mines le$ undisturbed for long periods post-conjict.