Design and performance of Full-polarimetric airborne GPR testing system

Author

Nilot, E. ; Xuan Feng ; Cai Liu ; Qi Lu ; Wenjing Liang ; Yue Yu ; Qianci Ren ; Song Cao ; Zhixin You ; Yuantao Fang ; Yin Zhou

Author_Institution

Coll. of Geo-Exploration Sci. & Technol., Jilin Univ., Changchun, China

fYear

2014

fDate

June 30 2014-July 4 2014

Firstpage

807

Lastpage

810

Abstract

Airborne ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a suitable tool to perform cost-effective surveys of the underground of a large possibly non-accessible areas. And It is concluded that airborne GPR will receive more attention in the future. So we have developed a L-band Full-polarimetric Step-Frequency GPR acquisition system, which consists of a GPS receiver, the Vivaldi antenna, a signal amplifier and a vector network analyzer (VNA) under the control of a PC unit. The main objective of our work is to conduct some experiments to test the feasibility of this airborne testing system.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; airborne radar; ground penetrating radar; network analysers; radar antennas; radar polarimetry; GPS receiver; Vivaldi antenna; full-polarimetric airborne GPR testing system; full-polarimetric step-frequency GPR acquisition system; ground penetrating radar; signal amplifier; vector network analyzer; Current measurement; Energy measurement; Geology; Global Positioning System; Ground penetrating radar; Remote sensing; GPR; airborne testing system; polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), 2014 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGPR.2014.6970537

Filename

6970537