Integrated use of GPR and TDR for soil permittivity evaluation

Author

Cannazza, Giuseppe ; Cataldo, A. ; Leucci, G. ; Persico, Raffaele ; Soldovieri, Francesco

Author_Institution

Andrea Cataldo Dept. of Eng. for Innovation, Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 June 2012

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

27

Abstract

In this paper we propose an experimental case of the joint use of ground penetrating radar (GPR) and time domain reflectometry (TDR) for the estimation of the dielectric permittivity of soil. In particular, the well known method of the diffraction curves is compared with the results of an “auto-focussing” strategy based on a linear microwave tomographic approach and with a TDR measurement. The effect of the actual offset between the antennas is accounted for too.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; soil; time-domain reflectometry; GPR measurement; TDR measurement; auto-focussing strategy; diffraction curve method; ground penetrating radar; linear microwave tomographic approach; soil dielectric permittivity; soil permittivity evaluation; time domain reflectometry; Antenna measurements; Atmospheric measurements; Dielectrics; Diffraction; Ground penetrating radar; Permittivity; Soil; GPR; TDR; dielectric permittivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2662-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254825

Filename

6254825