Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7929-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293905
