Airborne sensor concept to image shallow-buried targets

Author

Aubry, William M. ; Bonneau, R.J. ; Brown, Russell D. ; Lynch, E. Douglas ; Wicks, Michael C. ; Schneible, R.A. ; George, Alan D. ; Krumme, Michael A.

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

236

Abstract

This paper develops an airborne sensor concept to detect and image shallow-buried targets with a focus on the remote sensing of landmines. Our ongoing ground-based bistatic ground-penetrating radar (GPR) experiments have demonstrated deep penetration and subwavelength resolution. Simulation software (ground penetrating radar processing-GPRP) was developed and validated using experimental results. Extrapolation of the experimental results to higher frequencies using the simulation software indicates the ability to provide high-quality images of shallow-buried targets.

Keywords

airborne radar; buried object detection; digital simulation; extrapolation; image resolution; military radar; radar computing; radar imaging; radar resolution; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; 3D SAR images; airborne sensor; extrapolation; ground penetrating radar processing; ground-based bistatic ground-penetrating radar; landmines; remote sensing; shallow-buried target detection; shallow-buried targets imaging; simulation software; subwavelength resolution; Focusing; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Image sensors; Landmine detection; Object detection; Radar detection; Remote sensing; Sensor systems; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7357-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.2002.999724

Filename

999724