A three-dimensional FDTD radar simulator for predicting the fields scattered from buried objects

Author

Plumb, Richard G. ; Demarest, K. ; Huang, Z. ; Chaturvedi, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

3

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1699

Abstract

A three-dimensional, full-wave ground-penetrating radar simulator is presented. The finite-difference time-domain technique is used to calculate the fields scattered by objects buried in a stratified lossy half-space. A novel near-to-far field transformation and a method to predict scattered fields resulting from incident plane waves is presented

Keywords

backscatter; finite difference time-domain analysis; geophysical techniques; radar applications; radar cross-sections; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; terrestrial electricity; FDTD radar simulator; backscatter; buried object detection; finite-difference time-domain technique; full-wave ground-penetrating radar simulator; geoelectric; geophysical measurement technique; ground penetrating radar; incident plane wave; near-to-far field transformation; radar remote sensing; radar scattering theory; stratified lossy half-space; terrestrial electricity; three-dimensional calculation; Buried object detection; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic scattering; Finite difference methods; Green´s function methods; Ground penetrating radar; Predictive models; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.524000

Filename

524000