Affiliations: [a] West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, al. Piastów 17, Szczecin, Poland
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Barbara Szymanik, KETiI, West Pomeranian
University of Technology, Sikorskiego 37, 70-313 Szczecin, Poland. Tel.: +48 91
449 49 67; Fax: +48 91 449 48 59; E-mail: szymanik@zut.edu.pl
Abstract: Landmines, which affect numerous of territories in the whole world,
pose a serious threat mostly to civilians. Therefore there's no doubt that the
work on improving the methods of landmines' detection and liquidation should be
considered important. Nowadays most effort should be focused on detecting the
most common, nonmetallic landmines. In present study we introduce the new
method of landmines' detection: active infrared thermography with microwave
excitation, which may be considered complementary to popular metal detector. In
this paper we present numerical models (created using TDFEM method) of
microwave heating of chosen systems. The comparison between the numerical and
experimental results will be presented as well.
