Radar Signatures of Complex Buried Objects in Ground Penetrating Radar

• Autorzy: Panzner B. , Jöstingmeier A. , Omar A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The evaluation of radar signatures of buried objects for three experimental ground penetrating radar setups will be addressed in this paper. The contribution will present corresponding results and experiences. The performance of the imaging capabilities of the designed radar system will be assessed by reconstruction of complex shaped test objects, which have been placed within the ground. The influence of system parameters of the ground penetrating radar have been varied systematically in order to analyze their effects on the image quality. Among the modified parameters are the step size in transverse plane, height of the antenna over ground, frequency range, frequency points, antennas and varying instrument settings. A signal processing technique based on synthetic aperture radar has been applied on the measured raw data. The focus radius around a specific target has been analyzed concerning the compromise between image quality and processing time. The experiments demonstrate that the designed ground penetrating radar systems are capable for detection of buried objects with high resolution.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

image reconstruction; inverse scattering; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; GPR; migration

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunication
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 57, No. 1
• Strony: 9--14
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 12 poz., il., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Panzner B.

autor

Jöstingmeier A.

autor

Omar A.

• Microwave and Communication Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, P.O. Box 4120, 39016 Magdeburg, Germany,

Bibliografia

• [1] L. Capineri, S. Ivashov, and T. Bechtel, “Comparison of GPR Sensor Types for Landmine Detection and Classification,” in 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Birmingham, UK, June 16-19 2008.
• [2] B. Panzner, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “Radar Signatures of Complex Buried Objects in Ground Penetrating Radar,” in 11th International Radar Symposium, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 16-18 2010.
• [3] B. Panzner, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “Ka-Band Ultra-Wide-Band GPR for Landmine Detection,” in 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Birmingham, UK, June 16-19 2008.
• [4] A. Yarovoy and et al., “Development of Antennas for Subsurface Radars within ACE,” IEEE Electron Device Lett., 2007.
• [5] A. R. Bretones, “GA Design of a Thin-Wire Bow-Tie Antenna for GPR Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1004-1010, 2006.
• [6] A. Teggatz, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “A Forward Impulse Radiating Antenna for Subsurface Radars,” German Microwave Conference, vol. Ulm, April 5-7 2005.
• [7] B. Panzner, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “A Compact Double-Ridged Horn Antenna for Ground Penetrating Radar Applications,” in 18th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar, and Wireless Communications, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 14-16 2010.
• [8] A. Teggatz, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “Application of a Dielectric Lens for Focusing of a GPR,” International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, vol. Honolulu, Haiwaii, June 10-15 2007.
• [9] B. Panzner, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “Ka-Band Dielectric Lens Antenna for Resolution Enhancement of a GPR,” in 8th International Symposium on Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, Kunming, China, Nov 2-5 2008.
• [10] V. Yakubov, D. Suhanov, and V. Kutov, “New Fast SAR Method for 3-D Subsurface Radiotomography,” in 10th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Deft, The Nederlands, June 21-24 2004.
• [11] B. Panzner, A. Jöstingmeier, and A. S. Omar, “Evaluation of SAR Focusing Methods for Ground Penetrating Radar,” in 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Aachen, Germany, June 7-10 2010.
• [12] L. Zhou and Y. Su, “A GPR Imaging Algorithm with Artifacts Suppression,” in 13-th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Lecce, Italy, June 22-25 2010, pp. 331–336.