Multi-waveform full-polarimetric GPR for landmine detection

Author

Yarovoy, A.G. ; Ligthart, L.P. ; Schukin, A.D. ; Kaploun, I.V.

Author_Institution

Int. Res. Center for Telecommun. & Radar, Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

749

Abstract

A full-polarimetric ultra wideband GPR front-end has been developed in IRCTR especially for landmine detection application. A number of new ideas have been implemented in the design. A principally new antenna system design and an ability to perform quasi-simultaneous measurements with two transmit polarization and in two different frequency bands are main novelty aspects of the radar. Additionally in comparison with commercially available video impulse GPR systems the front-end has considerably larger bandwidth, ability to measure polarimetric structure of the scattered field and very high precision of scattered field measurements.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; landmine detection; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; antenna system design; frequency bands; full-polarimetric ultra wideband GPR front-end; ground penetrating radar; landmine detection; multiwaveform full-polarimetric GPR; polarimetric measurements; polarimetric structure; quasisimultaneous measurements; scattered field measurements; transmit polarization; video impulse GPR systems; Antenna measurements; Frequency measurement; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Performance evaluation; Polarization; Radar antennas; Radar scattering; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293905

Filename

1293905