Design and realization of a compact, low-cost, ultra wideband ground penetrating radar system

Author

Yan, Ming ; Tian, Mao ; Zhu, Qiuping ; Zhao, Maotai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Inf., Wuhan Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

364

Lastpage

367

Abstract

The ground penetrating radar (GPR) is currently one of the most convenient sensors used for the detection of the dielectric objects buried under the ground. Ultra wideband (UWB) GPR has a significant advantage due to benefit from both low and high frequencies, which means long-range detection with better resolution respectively. In this paper, a compact, low cost GPR using an impulse waveform is developed. The UWB GPR system is mainly composed of an impulse generator, UWB transmitting and receiving antennas, timing circuit, signal conditioner, high accuracy digitizer, and a laptop computer for data storage and image processing. An experimental UWB GPR system is designed and tested.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; UWB antennas; impulse waveform; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; ultrawideband ground penetrating radar system; Buried object detection; Costs; Dielectrics; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Radar detection; Receiving antennas; Signal generators; Signal resolution; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2005. Proceedings. 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9335-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNM.2005.1544057

Filename

1544057