A reconfigurable stepped frequency GPR (GPR-R)

Author

Parrini, F. ; Persico, R. ; Pieraccini, M. ; Spinetti, A. ; Macaluso, G. ; Fratini, M. ; Dei, D. ; Manacorda, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Firenze, Florence, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Ground Penetrating Radars are a unique and well known tool for soil investigation. In order to improve its penetration depth and/or its resolution limits, in the past several radar designs, based on the so called Continuous Wave-Stepped Frequency technique have been proposed. However, the resulting design was often a quite complex equipment. The radar system prototype proposed in this paper, while exhibits state of the art performances with a contained hardware size, it explores a new horizon applicable only to the CW-SF radar technique: the radar reconfigurability (GPR-R).

Keywords

CW radar; ground penetrating radar; radar detection; radar resolution; soil; CW-SF radar technique; continuous wave stepped frequency technique; ground penetrating radar reconfigurability; hardware size; radar design; radar system prototype; reconfigurable stepped frequency GPR; resolution limit; soil investigation; Bandwidth; Dynamic range; Ground penetrating radar; Interference; Radar antennas; CW-SF; GPR-R; Ground Penetrating Radar; Reconfigurable; Stepped Frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6048899

Filename

6048899