• DocumentCode
    521989
  • Title

    Archimedean spiral antenna for underground soil measurements in Greenland

  • Author

    Gustafson, Carl ; Johansson, Anders J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Technol., Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    12-16 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present a thin single-arm Archimedean spiral antenna designed to be used in underground soil measurements to characterize the dielectric properties of soil during freezing and thawing processes. The designed antenna works in low permittivity, low-loss frozen soil as well as in high permittivity, high-loss marshy soil and operates over the frequency range 1–3 GHz. The antennas has been successfully used for measurements of soil properties in situ.
  • Keywords
    Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Dielectric measurements; Frequency; Ice; Permittivity measurement; Soil measurements; Spirals; Temperature; Water;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6431-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-84-7653-472-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5505147