A 1-2 GHz SFCW radar for landmine detection

Author

Langman, Alan ; Inggs, M.R.

Author_Institution

Radar Remote Sensing Group, Cape Town Univ., Rondebosch, South Africa

fYear

1998

fDate

7-8 Sep 1998

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

454

Abstract

For the past few decades ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been recognised as one of the most promising technologies to aid in the detection of landmines. Most of the commercially available radars are pulsed systems. With the rapid development of digital radio technology, stepped frequency continuous wave (SFCW) modulation techniques are becoming more feasible. A carefully designed SFCW radar offers numerous advantages over the pulsed systems for the short range measurements. This paper discusses the design and testing of a 1-2 GHz SFCW radar system. Measurements of various mine simulants from an indoor and outdoor test site are presented

Keywords

CW radar; buried object detection; military radar; 1 to 2 GHz; GPR; SFCW radar; digital radio technology; ground penetrating radar; indoor test site; landmine detection; mine simulants; outdoor test site; stepped frequency continuous wave modulation; Bandwidth; Landmine detection; Phase noise; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Radio frequency; Synthesizers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing, 1998. COMSIG '98. Proceedings of the 1998 South African Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rondebosch

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5054-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSIG.1998.737003

Filename

737003