Buried Object Detection
(GSTAMIDS)

Under contract to the United States Army, EG&G currently is conducting field tests of the Ground Standoff Mine Detection System (GSTAMIDS) Block 0 Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) systems. GSTAMIDS is a spiral development effort designed to provide the war fighter an incremental, near-term capability to execute on-road countermine missions. GSTAMIDS is being developed in three distinct blocks. The primary mission for GSTAMIDS Block 0 is route clearance, automatically detecting and marking metallic and non-metallic Anti-Tank (AT) land mines. It consists of a Mine Detection and marking System (MDS) mounted on a teleoperated host vehicle and a Main Computer System (MCS) mounted in a blast protected control vehicle. Both vehicles are AT land mine overpass capable.

Mines are detected with an array of mine detection vehicle (MDV) mounted sensors. Raw, digitized data from nine (9) ground penetrating radars (GPR), nine (9) pulse magnetic induction (PMI) metal detectors and two (2) long wavelength infrared (LWIR) cameras are associated with vehicle position information from a Global Position System (GPS) corrected inertial navigation system (INS) and telemetered to the control vehicle mounted MCS. Data telemetry is accomplished via a 20 Mbps pulse code modulated (PCM), RF telemetry link. The MCS performs real-time processing of the data to extract mine features and fuse the results from multiple sensor types. If the MCS determines there is a high probability of a mine, the MCS then transmits mine mark coordinates back to the MDV. The MDV electronics then command a mark be placed at the indicated coordinates.

Contractor testing to date has included raw sensor data collection and sensor evaluation, performance (Pd and FAR), operating and storage environment, and EMI/EMC radiated emissions and susceptibility, as well as maintenance demonstrations.

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