Evaluation of a Bespoke Antarctic Meteorite Detection System in Polar Operating Conditions

Liam A. Marsh; Wouter Van Verre; John Wilson; Geoffrey W. Evatt; Anthony J. Peyton

doi:10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220085

Evaluation of a Bespoke Antarctic Meteorite Detection System in Polar Operating Conditions

Liam A. Marsh, Wouter Van Verre, John Wilson, Geoffrey W. Evatt, Anthony J. Peyton

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Abstract

A bespoke detection system has been constructed for the purpose of identifying iron-rich meteorites which are suspected to exist beneath the ice surface in regions of Antarctica. This system has been specially hardened to the hostile polar environment, and is capable of searching a desired target space of 1 km2 in approximately 11 hours, maintaining a target speed of 15 km/h. The performance of the detector has been validated through structured testing in the High Arctic. A test site was constructed in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, which contained 13 meteorite surrogates buried at depths between 0 cm (flush with the ground level) and 40 cm. Representative results for detector performance in typical Antarctic operating conditions are reported. The system demonstrates the ability to reliably detect targets as deep as 20 cm using real-time processing, and shows the potential for identifying targets as deep as 30-40 cm with more advanced post-processing, or improvements in the real-time discrimination algorithm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020 - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728148427
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220085
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020
Event	15th IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 9 Mar 2020 → 11 Mar 2020

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Name	2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020 - Proceedings

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Conference	15th IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	9/03/20 → 11/03/20

Keywords

Antarctica
metal detection
meteorites
polar instrumentation

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Marsh, L. A., Van Verre, W., Wilson, J., Evatt, G. W., & Peyton, A. J. (2020). Evaluation of a Bespoke Antarctic Meteorite Detection System in Polar Operating Conditions. In 2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020 - Proceedings Article 9220085 (2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2020 - Proceedings). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220085

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Evaluation of a Bespoke Antarctic Meteorite Detection System in Polar Operating Conditions. / Marsh, Liam A.; Van Verre, Wouter; Wilson, John et al.
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