UXO localization procedures applied to potable TEM sensor

Localization of unexploded ordnance (UXO) with transient electromagnetic (TEM) system is a principle and necessary problem in detection procedures, especially beset by low data diversity and high positioning uncertainty. In this paper, procedures for targets location are presented in detail with cued data collected by potable TEM sensor JPMD, which is designed to provide diverse time-domain data of high quality with one transmitter coil and five 3-component receiving coils. Based on the single dipole model, the target is located with the data collected at a single spatial point by the differential evolution (DE) optimization algorithm which can be subdivided into three steps. With the structure and parameters of JPMD sensors and data inversion process described briefly, a field test site of 5 m × 5 m measurement grid was conducted to present the specific UXO localization procedures at Jilin University. Results indicate that all the UXO-like targets can be detected distinctly with JPMD. The location of single object can be inversed rapid in tolerable error at one single point. For two objects with overlapping signals as one, the inverted horizontal position is basically in the middle of them and depth is a bit smaller than theory.