Polarimetric SAR imaging of buried landmines

Author

Carin, Lawrence ; Kapoor, Ravinder ; Baum, Carl E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

Volume

36

Issue

6

fYear

1998

fDate

11/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1985

Lastpage

1988

Abstract

If the fields incident on a buried body of revolution are polarized vertically or horizontally (relative to the ground), the backscattered fields are exclusively copolarized (i.e., there are no cross-polarized backscattered fields). After substantiating this theoretically, measured ultrawideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are used for corroboration, considering real, buried landmines that approximate bodies of revolution

Keywords

backscatter; buried object detection; military systems; radar cross-sections; radar detection; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; backscatter; buried body of revolution; buried landmine; buried object detection; copolarized; ground penetrating radar; land mine detection; measurement technique; radar detection; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; synthetic aperture radar; Dielectrics; Ground penetrating radar; Interference; Landmine detection; Polarization; Radar detection; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.729373

Filename

729373